Thursday, 26 March 2026

Author: Faruqi Jeniri

Hii: Farewell, thanks and continue the good work

SIBU: A farewell dinner for outgoing Sibu Resident, Hii Chang Kee was held at Tanahmas Hotel on Monday night. In his speech, Hii thanked the staff of Sibu Division Resident’s Office for organising the farewell dinner. “After two years as the Resident of Sibu Division, the time has come for

SK Kampung Tellian to have new building

MUKAH: SK Kampung Tellian will finally have a new school building after 15 years. The project started with the clearing of 10 hectares of land for the construction. The full replacement construction work of the school was initiated by publishing a tender notice, followed by a site visit and clearing

Sibu welcome new resident

SIBU: Former divisional head of Industry and Investment Promotion of the Ministry of Industrial and Entrepreneur Development, Charles Siaw, is the new Sibu Division Resident replacing Hii Chang Kee. Hii is promoted to the post of permanent secretary to Ministry of Tourism, Arts, Culture, Youth and Sports. The handover duty

Teamwork to do house repair for a centenarian

KUCHING: One of Hope Place recipients is a centenarian Maree Bin Mion, 109. Maree lives with his 59-yearold daughter Sa’adiah. Sa’adiah, who suffers from kidney failure, requires dialysis treatment three times a week. Due to old age Maree’s vision and hearing are not good. The wooden house that they live

‘Start Now’ is CTMC’s meeting theme

KUCHING : Connections Toastmasters Club (CTMC) will be meeting tomorrow at Homestay Hotel, Jalan Ellis here at 7.30pm. The theme of the meeting is: “Start Now”. “Stop waiting for the perfect moment, the way to get ahead is to start now,” said Vincent Chai, the President of the club. “So,

Salibasic laments his call-up for trial

KUCHING: The news that kept the football scene abuzz in Sarawak the past two weeks was the return of the fan’s favourite, Muamer Salibasic to the Sarawak football team training ground. The prospect of Salibasic returning to the team had fans speculating the return of Sarawak’s old form in the

Courtesy calls on Johari

KUCHING: Chief Minister, Datuk Patinggi (Dr) Abang Johari Tun Openg yesterday received three groups of visitors in his office at Wisma Bapa Malaysia here. First to call on Johari was the Director of the Narcotics Addiction Rehabilitation Centre (Puspen) Kuching, Iskandar Turkee. The aim of the courtesy call was to

Two injured in motorcycle crash

KUCHING: After the State Operations Centre received a distress call at 9.54am yesterday from Sarawak General Hospital relating to a road accident at Jalan Diplomatik near Yayasan Sarawak here, it immediately contacted Petrajaya BOMBA to go to the accident scene. Following the call, Petrajaya BOMBA dispatched three personnel in a

Nvidia partners with Uber, Volkswagen in self-driving technology

LAS VEGAS: Nvidia Corp will partner with Uber Technologies Inc and Volkswagen AG as the graphics chipmaker’s artificial intelligence platforms make further gains in the autonomous vehicle industry. The company, which already has partnerships in the industry with companies such as carmaker Tesla and China’s Baidu, makes computer graphics chips

Villagers overjoyed with approval of NCR land

LUNDU: Owne r s of Native Customary Rights (NCR) land in Kpg Sampadi and Kpg Sg Limo here are overjoyed after gaining back their land after 20 years. The issue which under the concern of Minister of Natural Resources and Environment, Dato Sri Wan Junaidi and Tanjung Datu Assemblywoman, Datuk