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
MUKAH: A total of 500 fishermen received subsistence allowance in cash amounting to RM138,650 at Dewan Suarah Mesra, yesterday. Tellian Assemblyman Yussibnosh Balo said, the monthly aid given by the government was to lessen the burden of fisherman due to the unstable income especially during wavy sea. “Hopefully the recipients
KUCHING: Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture through Sarawak Arts Council will hold ‘Sarawak and Beyond- A Musical Tour’ tomorrow 25 March 2017 at old State Legislative Assembly (DUN) building here. The concert, starting at 8.00pm aims to promote Sarawak through international partnership with international students who are in Sarawak
DALAT: A total of 1,237 recipients of the 1Malaysia People’s Aid (BR1M) turned up to collect the monetary aid at the Stadium Perpaduan here last Monday. Minister of Welfare, Women and Community Wellbeing, Datuk Fatimah Abdullah presented the aid to the recipients. At the event, Fatimah advised the recipients to
MIRI: The Ex-police Association of Malaysia (PBPM) Miri Branch is holding its bi-annual general meeting (BGM) today at its premises No. 139 at Jalan Pantai, Piasau Camp here. According to its chairman, Han Hipeni, all registered and non-registered members, including former auxiliary police personnel are welcomed to the meeting which
KUCHING: New Sarawak Tribune Executive director James Alexander Ritchie on Tuesday donated 200 copies of the book Sarawak Books of Facts and Records worth RM40,000 to his Alma mater to be distributed to the teaching staff and students to enable them to learn about the history of Sarawak. The Sarawak
