MUKAH: 189 illegal immigrants were detained by Sarawak Immigration Department in an operation codenamed “Ops Sapu” here early yesterday morning. The operation, which began at 5.00am, was carried out by 72 operation officers led by Deputy Chief of the Kuching Immigrat ion Depar tment Enforcement Division, Rosliah Binti Kassim. In
KUCHING: The RM5 million Rural Transformation Project (RTP) allocations for the State Assemblymen (ADUN) are not channelled directly to the ADUNs themselves. Such allocation will only be channelled through after the list of projects to be undertaken in each constituency is submitted by each ADUN in a lab a year
BETONG: The government’s crocodile culling and removal efforts undertaken by Sarawak Forestry Corporation (SFC) are continuing in earnest, this time concentrating on the waters of Sg. Undai, Pusa, in response to the fatal crocodile attack on Besimillah bin Rajali, 46, recently. “SFC’s Swift Wildlife Action Team (SWAT) from the corporation’s
SRI AMAN: A car driver and a passenger died on the spot while three others sustained only minor injuries after the Perodua Axia car they were travelling in skidded before it rammed a telephone pole at KM31, Jalan Sri Aman-Serian early yesterday morning. The two deceased have been identified as
KABONG: The Tanjung Kembang Beach here has huge potentials to be developed into a new holiday and tourist destinations to attract more visitors to this district. Thi s was pointed out by Kabong Assemblyman, Mohd Chee Kadir when officiating at the Tanjung Kembang Beach De v e l opment Pha
KUCHING: A suspect was arrested after he and three accomplices robbed a couple at the old DUN building around 9.30pm last Monday. The suspect in his late 20s was arrested in his house at Kampung Gita near here at 10am yesterday. A 17-year-old food catering assistant said he was taking
KUCHING: A 60-year-old suspect from Jalan Laruh here was arrested at 10.30pm last Saturday at the lobby of a hotel at Jalan Datuk Ajibah Abol here during a raid. The suspect was found in possession of a red packet (angpow) containing 10.13 grams of ‘syabu’ with a market value of
LIMBANG: The district police chief, Superintendent Mohd Bukhori Saffai said he will not defend any of his men who are involved in drug activities in the district. He said this following the arrest of three men including a policeman during an operation conducted at a store behind a house at
KUCHING: A corner double-storey terrace house at Green Road here was razed in fire around 5 pm last Monday. The two house owners aged 48 and 75 were not in the house when the fire started from the upper floor of the house, built 42 years ago. Following a distress
KUCHING: Head of State Tun Pehin Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud and wife Toh Puan Datuk Patinggi Hajjah Ragad Kurdi Taib yesterday received a courtesy call from 2017 State Level Quran Recital Committee led by the committee advisor Datuk Haji Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah at the Astana Negeri. The call was