Friday, 20 February 2026

Author: Faruqi Jeniri

210 pupils attend crime prevention talk

KUCHING: A talk was conducted at Chung Hua Primary School No 4 here yesterday morning by the police to educate the pupils on crime prevention. The police was represented by Sub Inspector Simon Low who spent two hours at the school to alert the pupils from falling prey to online

Parish pastoral council celebrates Feast of St. Theresa

SERIAN: The St. Theresa’s Parish Pastoral Council here celebrated Feast of St. Theresa, the Patron Saint of the Parish Pastoral last weekend, a press statement said yesterday. Huge number of participants from far and near Serian attended the activities of the two-day feast to attend Holy Mass, the procession around

MyRIS Outstanding Leadership Award for UNIMAS Vice Chancellor

KOTA SAMARAHAN: Professor Datuk Dr Mohamad Kadim Suaidi, Vice Chancellor of UNIMAS was awarded the MyRIS Outstanding Leadership Award by Malaysian Research and Innovation Society (MyRIS) in recognition of his outstanding contribution in promoting innovation of young scientists through the International Science, Technology and Engineering Expo (i-STEEx). i-STEEx has hosted

Be wary of rabies, people told

KAPIT: Bukit Goran State Assemblyman Jefferson Jamit Unyat (pic) yesterday advised the people of Kapit to be wary of rabies as Kapit has been declared as a new rabies infected areas. “Kapit particularly at Jalan Airport Lama is among the five newly declared rabies infected areas by Sarawak State Disaster

35 held for looting in quake-tsunami zone

JAKARTA: Indonesian police on Tuesday said they have arrested dozens of people for looting on the quake and tsunami-struck island of Sulawesi, where survivors have raided shops for water, food and other goods. “On the first and second day clearly no shops were open. People were hungry. There were people

Indonesia tsunami worsened by shape of Palu bay

PARIS: The tsunami that ravaged the Indonesian city of Palu was outsized compared to the earthquake that spawned it, but other factors — including a long, narrow bay — conspired to create monster waves, scientists say. At least 844 people are already known to have died in the disaster, and

Reunited couple a rare ray of hope in quake zone

PALU, Indonesia: It was two agonising days of searches through makeshift morgues and hospitals before Azwan found his wife Dewi alive and well after she was swept away in the tsunami that crashed into the Indonesian city of Palu. Recounting the story beside her at a small roadside stall in

Kiwi PM faces domestic woes as ‘Jacinda-mania’ goes global

WELLINGTON: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and baby daughter Neve charmed the world in New York during last week’s UN General Assembly, but pundits say her government’s lustre has started to fade back home after almost a year in power. “Jacinda-mania goes global” trumpeted Kiwi pop culture website The

Quake-hit Indonesia starts burying dead in mass grave

PALU (Indonesia): Indonesian volunteers began burying bodies in a mass grave with space for more than a thousand people yesterday, victims of a quake-tsunami that devastated swathes of Sulawesi and left authorities struggling to deal with the sheer scale of the disaster. Indonesia is no stranger to natural calamities and

Prison break: Convicts on the run after Indonesia disaster

JAKARTA: Some 1,200 Indonesian convicts are on the run from three different detention facilities in devastated Sulawesi after the region was rocked by a powerful earthquake and tsunami, a justice ministry official said Monday. One prison in tsunami-struck Palu city – built to hold just 120 people – saw most