KUCHING: Three youths in an Avanza sustained injuries on their hands and faces after the vehicle they were travelling in overturned at the traffic light junction under a flyover at Jalan Song/Tun Jugah here yesterday morning. The accident occurred at about 11.30am when the Avanza, which came from Kuching International
KUCHING: A Kuching Polytechnic student died at the Sarawak General Hospital at 6.40pm on Sunday after ramming his motorcycle into a car. Raja Faruq Ammirul Raja Abdul Manap, 19, from Mile 9 1/2, Jalan Penrissen was heading towards Kuching Polytechnic from Jalan Telaga Air, Matang when the mishap happened at
KUCHING: Political Secretary to the Chief Minister Michael Tiang wonders why Sarawak will go bankrupt in three years and why the Sarawak government needs to spend the state’s reserves when it has extra revenues to spend on the state developments and expenditures. Tiang said this in response to Finance Minister
KUCHING: Operators of illegal gambling have been told to cease and desist. Bau police chief Poge Nyaon said police would come down hard on the defiant. He said some of the operators were openly selling illegal lottery tickets in coffee shops and markets. Poge said Bau residents must work together
KUCHING: Kuching Sarawak Housing and Real Estate Developer Association (Sheda) chairman Sim Kiang Chiok says there are several ways to keep costs down to make property prices attractive in the current market. “New property prices are determined or based on various costs. The major ones are land, compliance, construction costs
KUCHING: A woman was constantly harassed with threatening calls by loan sharks after her brother who could not repay his personal loan, instead gave them her mobile phone number. The victim has lodged a police report and asked Sarawak United People’s Party (SUPP) public complaint bureau chief Wilfred Yap to help
No summons for illegally parked car damaged by falling tree branch KUCHING: People curse and swear when they are issued with summonses. They call the police names and say they are heartless and unforgiving, which is not true, because they can be very considerate as was the case yesterday when
Final of a four-part special series on the drug scourge Combating drugs needs a collective effort, says Puspen volunteer KUCHING: Lee Chia Soon, a volunteer with the Kuching National Anti-Drugs Agency (AADK), helps out with the organising of programmes for drug addicts. His dream of creating an anti-drugs video clip
KUCHING: It’s bad enough having a water meter stolen, but when a report was made and still it wasn’t replaced, now this just smacks of incompetence. Litres of water just going to waste — this was what a staff member of a state-based association found out, much to his chagrin.
KUCHING: A teenager’s uncle was badly beaten up after he had days earlier attempted to rape her in Betong and threatened to slash her with a knife in Batu Kawa, here, yesterday. The suspect had recently attempted to rape the 17-year-old girl who was then in Betong for the Gawai
