KUCHING: Master Tan Check Joon, who is the technical chairman of the Sarawak Taekwondo Association (WTF), the Executive Committee and also the chairman of the Taekwondo Guidance Board of Malaysia (WTF) has been appointed as the Malaysian taekwondo team manager for Asia Games 2018. He will bring Malaysia team participate
BINTULU: 20 personnel consisting environmental officers, forest management unit (FMU) coordinator, surveyors and safety officers from eight (8) Sarawak Timber Association (STA) member companies that had volunteered to undertake the Pilot Projects for Environmental Compliance Audit participated in the “Training on Environmental Quality Monitoring” from January 30 to February 1,
KUCHING: With the collaboration of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Sarawak Subsection and Sarawak Society for the Blind (SSB), two professional development workshops on “Low vision and blindness – functional issues” and “Multiple disabilities and low vision/blindness” were completed successfully on February 6 2018 at Swinburne University of
KUCHING: The Ex-Highians’ Association Kuching (alumi of Kuching High School) will be hosting the Back to School Fund Raising Sales on March 4, from 8am to 12pm at Kuching High School. The organising committee would like to call upon all former students (ex-Highians) of Kuching High School, school’s teachers and
KUCHING: Flood evacuees in the state rose to 3,231 people from 908 families at 20 relief centres as of 5 pm yesterday compared to 3,121 people from 837 families at noon. According to the State Disaster Management Committee Sec-retariat, of the total, 1,818 evacuees from 506 families were from Samarahan
BINTANGOR: Heavy rain over the last five days has caused a landslide at Genting Kopi, Jalan Pakan here yesterday morning. Bintangor Fire and Rescue Station chief, Nicholas Belulin said he received an emergency call at 8.17 am before sending a team to the scene to monitor the situation. “Upon arrival
KUCHING: A teenager was found dead hanging in a room in his house at Kampung Beliong, Asajaya, near here. Mohd Afiq Bin Abdul Rahman, aged 18, a labourer, was found dead by family members around 2.20 am on Monday. Police who arrived at the scene seized a rope and a
MIRI: A team of firemen from the Fire and Rescue Services Department (Bomba) was rushed to the Baitulmal Islamic Complex building at Jalan Miri-Pujut here, after receiving an emergency call on an explosion in the building on Monday night. Firefighters received an emergency call at 10.15 pm and an EMRS
KUCHING: Sarawak General Hospital (SGH) is calling on family members or next-of-kin of a 56-year-old Chinese male patient, known as Bong Chu Kien to come to the hospital immediately. According to a statement issued by the hospital, the patient was taken in by an ambulance on January 24 due to
KUCHING: In conjunction with the upcoming Chinese New Year CNY), Riverside Majestic and Grand Margherita Hotel representatives paid a visit to Sarawak Press here yesterday. The hotels’ general manager Mok Pin Chuan and manager Patrick Lau were part of the delegation that delivered CNY goodies to Sarawak Press.