SIBU: Sibu Water Board (SWB) has planned various programmes in conjunction with the World Water Day celebration in order to create awareness to the public on the importance of water. SWB general manager Sudin Jaya said SWB had taken the initiative to organise several programmes for the participation of all,
KUCHING: The Sarawak Association for the Welfare of Intellectually Disabled Children (Perkata Sarawak), which operates Perkata Special School, will hold its Annual Open Day Sale 2017 at the school premises at Jalan Ong Tiang Swee, from 7.30am to 12noon on 30 April. The annual fundraising is to raise funds for
BINTULU: Member Parliament for Bintulu, Dato’ Seri Tiong King Sing recently presented prizes to the winners of Joran Mania Bintulu 2017 Fishing Competition at the Bintulu Waterfront promenade. Later, he presented a personal contribution of RM2,000 to the Organising Chairman, Abdul Rahman Ibrahim who is from Parti Pesaka Bumiputera
BINTULU: Bintulu Member of Parliament, Dato Seri Tiong King Sing, through his Mobile Caring Squad, recently donated aid to 33 people from seven families who were left homeless when fire gutted their houses at Kampung Setinggan Musako, Sungai Plan, Tanjung Kidurong near here. The caring squad, led by its chief
MIRI: The Cape Jazz Band, also known as the CJB, will be performing at the Borneo Jazz Festival from 12-13 May at ParkCity Everly here. The CJB will be bringing a full brass section to the festival, performing their Cape Jazz from Cape Town, South Africa. With a special focus
KUCHING: H&L management staff organised charity events for children from Peryatim, or Sarawak Orphans Welfare Association, on 1 April and 8 April at the H&L outlet at Matang Mall. “We are happy to have held such great and meaningful charity events with Peryatim in collaboration with our merchant from the
KUCHING: A total of 17 children’s writers, illustrators, poets and storytellers from six countries are coming here to conduct 55 sessions on the joys of reading in the third edition of Pustaka-Bookaroo Children’s Literature Festival from 22- 23 April, 2017. The festival will take place at Sarawak State Library (Pustaka)
KUCHING: Former three-term Kapit Member of Parliament Dato James Jimbun Pungga (pic), 77, passed away at 5.40am yesterday at the Serdang Hospital in Selangor after a long illness due to heart complication. The late Jimbun originally from Nanga Entawau, the last major Iban settlement in Upper Balleh in Kapit, left
TATAU: A driver and two passengers were slightly injured after the car they were travelling in rammed a trailer parked at a road shoulder at KM 44, Jalan Tatau-Bintulu, early yesterday morning. Tatau BOMBA chief, PBKII Mamat Bin Rhayi said that the car involved in the accident was heading for
LAWAS: Two jobless men from Kampung Lakutan, Jalan Merapok here were nabbed by police in front of a budget hotel here last Monday night. According to Lawas District Police chief, DSP Abang Zainal Abidin Abang Ahmad, following a check the two suspects were found to be positive of the drug
