MIRI: Students of the National Youth Skills Institute (IKBN) Miri were lauded for giving their time and efforts during the ‘Programme Impak ILKBS@komuniti’ today. During the one-day programme, 20 students of the institute were involved in a charity work by cleaning and beautifying a takraw court at Taman Bulatan. They
MIRI: Food delivery services have become an ideal platform to ease burdens during the Covid-19 outbreak. With the tightened movement control order (MCO), more people are opting for online food applications, and to have their food delivered to their homes, instead of going outside as they usually did prior to
MIRI: The Miri Division Disaster Management Committee (DMC) has tightened up standard operating procedures (SOPs) for coffee shops in this division in an effort to turn Miri back into a green zone. This was revealed by Transport Minister Datuk Lee Kim Shin on Thursday after he chaired a dialogue session
MIRI: Police detained three local men for allegedly hurling firecrackers into a workers’ quarters in Riam early Wednesday morning. According to Miri police chief ACP Lim Meng Seah, the trio, aged 29, 33 and 37 years were detained during an operation dubbed ‘Ops Laras’ conducted by a team from Miri
MIRI: Marine police seized cigarettes and alcoholic beverages worth RM44,388 including unpaid duties in a raid on a premises in Bekenu on Thursday. Sarawak Marine Police commander ACP Shamsol Kassim in a statement today said, the seized items comprised illicit cigarettes with unpaid duty worth RM22,690 and contraband alcohol worth
MIRI: The Customs Department on Wednesday seized 3,834.53 litres of various brands of beer worth RM29,705 with unpaid duties and taxes valued at RM119,287. The total estimated value of the contrabands including duties and taxes is RM148,993. Sarawak Customs director Herman Shah Abdullah said the alcoholic beverages were seized during
MIRI: Police detained a local man in possession of drugs worth about RM4, 200 in Tudan here early Wednesday morning. Miri police chief ACP Lim Meng Seah said, a team of police personnel from Miri Criminal Investigation Department (CID) led by ASP Unang Giang were conducting a raid at a
MIRI: For the past few weeks, the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) Account 1 withdrawal has been a hot issue in the country. Most of the EPF’s contributors wanted to withdraw their savings (Account 1) after their livelihood was affected by the impact of Covid-19 pandemic. Following the economic fallout, many
MIRI: A local man was detained at Miri Airport this early morning (Nov 19), after two bullets (shotgun ammunition) were found in his hand-carry luggage. The arrest of the 38 year-old man was made by Malaysian Airport Berhad (MAB) auxiliary police unit after the bullets were picked up by X-ray
MIRI: The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) seized a foreign tugboat with two Indonesian crews for an offence under the Merchant Shipping Ordinance 1952 on Wednesday afternoon. According to Miri MMEA director, Captain Md Fauzi Othman, the tugboat crews failed to produce any supporting documents to allow them to anchor
