KUCHING: Sarawakian Teng Wei Rui, a 12-year-old student, did the whole country proud when he was among five students selected from a pool of 10,000 worldwide entries by America’s National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) for Tynker’s Forward to the Moon Mission Patch Design Challenge. The Form 1 student of
MIRI: Police have arrested five people, including two siblings, for allegedly stealing a 2,300-litre stainless steel water tank from the Association of Parents with Special Children (Pibakis) centre in Lutong. There suspects were detained here late Saturday evening. CCTV footage of the suspects breaking into the centre on Friday night
MIRI: The semi-automatic gun used in last Thursday’s shooting incident in Taman Jelita here has been recovered. It was found inside a drain about 50 metres from the shooting incident by a team of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) here at 2pm on Sunday. City police chief ACP Lim Meng
BETONG: Some of the more able-bodied recipients of state welfare can take up modern precision farming to increase their incomes. Making the suggestion on Sunday, Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Amar Douglas Uggah said they could take up hydroponic farming, for instance, which uses light technology and is not labour extensive.
BY ALI IMRAN MOHD NOORDIN Fraud through the Internet including fake news continues to haunt Malaysians as more and more people have been falling into the trap of cybercrime since 2016. CyberSecurity Malaysia (CSM) through its official complaints centre Cyber999 has divided the reports on cybercrime into nine categories, namely
KUCHING: Pansar Engineering Services Sdn Bhd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Pansar Bhd, has been awarded the Sibu Flood Mitigation Project Phase 3 worth RM78 million by Kiasan Engineering Sdn Bhd. A filing with Bursa Malaysia showed that the Sibu Flood Mitigation Project Phase 3 focuses on areas in Kampung Hilir
MELAKA: In the ‘New Malaysia’ era, what the people want are not patchy, overlapping changes but substantive ones that will impact their lives. Economic Affairs Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Azmin Ali said the people did not want a government that talked about rebranding when it did not bring about any outcomes to
PUTRAJAYA: The government is planning to revive the Malaysian Overseas Employees Management Centre in order to protect Malaysians seeking jobs overseas. Human Resource Minister M. Kula Segaran said the centre, which was established in 2007, had become less obvious and ineffective due to lack of officers, but was deemed necessary
SIEM REAP, Cambodia: The plane carrying the 40 Sarawakians and three Sabahans freed by Cambodian authorities has taken off from Siem Reap International Airport. The plane left at 10.50am local time. They are on board a chartered flight QD803. Accompanying them are Minister of Welfare, Community Wellbeing, Women, Family and
TANAH RATA: Barisan Nasional (BN) retained the Cameron Highlands parliamentary seat after its candidate Ramli Mohd Nor, 61, won in yesterday’s by-election. With his victory, Ramli also became the first Orang Asli to be elected as a Member of Parliament. Ramli, a direct candidate of BN (not from any of