KUCHING: Head of State Tun Pehin Sri Haji Abdul Taib Mahmud yesterday received a courtesy call from the state’s Public Service Commission (PSC) led by its Chairman Datu Abdul Ghafur Shariff. The call was to introduce the new PSC members namely the Deputy Chairman Datu Romie @ Danial ak. Sigan,
KUCHING: The MARA Junior Science College (MRSM) Mukah will have a factory soon to change the role of sago in the local industry and provide opportunity for the rural folk to generate lucrative income. Sago waste discharged by sago mills can be processed to produce sweet sago syrup. The sweetness
KUCHING: Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Resource Planning and Environment, Datu Sudarsono Osman, is among the 10 people from the ministry to be transferred to other ministries, starting middle of this month. Second Minister of Resource Planning and Environment Datuk Amar Haji Awang Tengah Ali Hasan said the transfer
PANTU: People in Sarawak are advised not to worry with the presence of 176 North Koreans in the state. All these North Koreans have work permit and valid pass and could move freely in the state and most of them are contract workers, miners and others, said Deputy Home Minister
KUCHING: The Sarawak Business Federation (SBF) and the Malaysian Employers Federation (MEF) jointly oppose the proposal of the Ministry of Human Resources to set up the Employment Insurance Scheme (EIS). It is understood that the Minister of Human Resources plans to table in Parliament the proposed EIS Bill in July this
KUCHING: Galleria, an established art gallery at Wesberly House, Rubber Road West here, has donated an undisclosed amount of money to Sarawak Hospice Society. During the Cultural Splendour exhibition early in the year, the art gallery raised some funds for the society. Evelyn Willom of Galleria recently presented a cheque
The lights at the hall were dim, but the spotlight fell on the models strutting the runway on stage. Everyone at the venue focused their attention on the catwalk where models consisting of contestants of Dewi Idola Berkarisma 2017 and Jejaka Idola Berkarisma 2017 dressed in different pastel coloured Malay
When the lights turned bright in the ballroom of the Élysées Montmartre in Paris, a creaky, old music venue that first opened its doors here in the 1800s, the lead model to appear on Comme des Garçons’ elevated catwalk was dressed in white. It was not exactly a dress. It
SERIAN: The Serian FA squad who was predicted to cruise into the quarter-finals of the Malaysian People’s Football League (LBR) National Level campaign have to ‘wait’ whether they are qualified. It is due to a shock defeat (0-1) in the hands of the Federal Territory of Labuan on last Saturday.
KUCHING: A business undergraduate student, who emerged champion in the individual category of the Malaysian Deloitte Tax Challenge last November, won two awards at the recent Southeast Asia final round in Singapore. Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak Campus’ accounting and finance undergraduate student, James Voon Tein Wei, picked up both the