MIRI: An allocation amounting to RM1.5 billion has been approved by the State government for the implementation of 43 infrastructures projects under the Highland Development Agency (HDA) in the Baram Parliamentary constituency comprising the Telang Usan and Mulu state constituencies. In revealing this, Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Amar Douglas Uggah
Excerpts from Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi (Dr) Abang Johari Tun Openg’s keynote address at the International Conference on Sarawak and Asean Growing Together for Common Prosperity and Regional Wellbeing. THERE are bountiful opportunities here in Sarawak, as evidenced by the state’s impressive performance over the years. It has experienced a
KOROLYOV (Russia): A Russian rocket that carried two people to space last month failed and sent the craft back to Earth because of “deformation” of a part that was made during assembly at the cosmodrome, a space official said yesterday. “The cause of a non-standard separation (of the rocket’s second
KAPIT: State Assemblyman for Bukit Goram, Jefferson Jamit Unyat officiated the closing ceremony of the ‘Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Training and Implementation Programme’ on Wednesday. The three-day training programme, held from 29 to 31 October at the State Office Complex at Jalan Bleteh here, was attended by some 200
JAKARTA: The smashed fuselage of a crashed Indonesian Lion Air jetliner may have been found, a top military commander said Wednesday, as Jakarta ordered the removal of the budget carrier’s technical director and staff who cleared the doomed flight for take-off. Authorities said they were confident sonar technology had pinpointed
KUCHING: Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi (Dr) Abang Johari Tun Openg said that the strength of Sarawak depended on the style of state leadership. He added, “Either the leaders are close to the people or want to be close to the people, they must listen to the people. “By listening to
KUCHING: The overall number of breast cancer cases in Sarawak is between 500 and 600 new cases a year. Advisor to Sarawak Breast Cancer Support Group, Datu Dr Zulkifli Jantan disclosed this according to records at hospitals. “The total number for all types of cancer is about 5,000,” he disclosed
KUCHING: Teenage pregnancies in Sarawak are expected to be further reduced this year. Minister of Welfare, Community Wellbeing, Women, Family and Childhood Education, Dato Sri Hajah Fatimah Abdullah said there were 4,000 teenage pregnancies in 2013. They dropped in 2014 when the target was set to reduce the cases by
KUCHING: Revisionist historian and author, Lina Soo will hold a public talk on the Malaysia Agreement 1963 and the Sarawak Oil Mining Ordinance in Sibu this Sunday starting at 2pm at Paramount Hotel. Soo is the author of two books on Sarawak based upon the British declassified colonial documents obtained
MOSCOW: One person was killed and three injured when an explosive device went off Wednesday inside a building housing the FSB security service in Arkhangelsk in northern Russia, an official said. The device went off just before 9 am (0600 GMT) in the FSB building in the centre of the