KUCHING: Persatuan Alumni Dayak Universiti Malaya (PADUM) in collaboration with Sarawak Dayak Educationist Association and lecturers of Institutes of Teacher Education (IPG) in the midst of carrying a programme to help interim teachers who failed their examination and had to be dismissed not long ago. It is understood that the
KUCHING : Liansin Trading Sdn Bhd is holding a roadshow at H&L Retail Sdn Bhd – Kuching Sentral from 20 March to 2 April. Visitors can sample Haryana healthy rice from India at an exhibition held in conjunction with the roadshow. There will be a simple question-and-answer contest which does
MUKAH: Azri Jeffery and Azan were champions of the men’s doubles of the Oya Closed Badminton Championship organised by Oya Badminton Club (KBO) 2017 whe they won in the final held at Oya Multipurpose Hall, here, recently. The chairman of the organising committee and also chairman of the Bureau, Jefery
SARATOK: MHH Betong team defeated Awik Tengah team in the final to emerge as champions of the inaugural 2nd Saratok Sepak Takraw Open tournament held at Gelanggang 1Malaysia Ulu Awik, here, on last Sunday. Nevertheless, MHH Betong struggled against Awik Tengah before winning 21-16 and 21-17 to take home a
GEDONG: A total of 14 boats will ‘shake’ the Batang Sadong River near Gedong town during the Batang Sadong Regatta which will be held for three days starting yesterday. The boats were the Sri Jaya which will be rowed by a team from Kampung Segera Jaya, Batak Lampong (Lalang Mayak),
SRI AMAN: A total of 28 families and 84 people were made homeless when two longhouses at the Jongkong Panjai, Jungkong Empelajau road were destroyed in a fire early yesterday morning. The longhouses involved are Rumah Langgau Selumbang and Rumah Junit Duyu which are only separated by a distance of
KUCHING: An unemployed man suspected of possessing drugs was arrested by the police on Wednesday afternoon. The suspect was picked up by the police at Kampung Siol Kandis here at 3.30pm following a tip-off from the public. The police also seized a metal container, 14 straw tubes filled with crystalline
KUCHING: A security guard lodged a police report after he discovered RM25,000 worth of electric cables missing from his workplace last Tuesday evening. The complainant, who works at a factory at Demak Laut, said he was patrolling the vicinity of the premises when he discovered the cables which were kept
MIRI: A woman was injured after the car she was travelling in crashed into a concrete fence at Jalan Miri-Bintulu here last Wednesday morning. The victim, in her 30s, was said to be heading to Morsjaya from the city centre when the car went out of control at a road
The proposal to set up Unemployment Insurance Scheme (UIS) by Ministry of Human ResourceS to manage retrenched workers in this country is completely out of touch with today’s economic and employment realities. Here’s why. First, the UIS makes leisure more attractive than employment. This, however, is not to say that