Sunday, 14 December 2025

Author: Natasha Jee

Encouraging response to mobile PPV

SIBU: As many as 3,005 people turned up at the mobile vaccination centre (PPV) at the Ching Ang Methodist Church here since it started operations last Friday. Sarawak United People’s Party (SUPP) Bawang Assan branch chairman Senator Robert Lau said on the last day of the vaccination programme last Sunday

Suspension not the answer

Union rejects punishing students for non-attendance KUCHING: Sarawak Teachers’ Union (STU) does not agree to a suggestion that students who do not attend home-based teaching and learning (PdPR) classes be punished with suspension. Its president Adam Prakash Abdullah said the union is not in favour of punishing students like that

Action of enforcement officers under scrutiny

KUCHING: KUCHING: Five men believed to be enforcement officers allegedly committed trespass at a house at Mile 9, Kuching-Serian Road to catch and put to sleep (PTS) a female family dog named Mumu and six of its month-old puppies. A daughter of the dog owner, who only wants to be

Spiderman gets his vaccine dose!

KUCHING: Our friendly neighbourhood spiderman is in town. Well, in fact there are two of them. What are they doing? Both spidermen have their individual stories to tell. For one of them life has been very hard after the implementation of the nationwide movement control order (MCO), and the other

Construction sites ordered to close for SOP violations

KUCHING: A construction site in Bintulu and one in Seremban, Negeri Sembilan have been ordered to close after failing to comply with movement control order (MCO) standard operating procedures (SOPs) for the construction sector. The Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) on Friday (June 25) said action was taken after an 

Minister optimistic about early reopening of tourism industry

KUCHING: Federal Tourism, Arts and Culture Minister Datuk Seri Nancy Shukri is optimistic that the tourism industry in the country will reopen as early as September. “However, this is subject to the standard operating procedure (SOP) compliance,” she said after visiting the first Tourism Sector Industrial Covid-19 Vaccination Centre (PPVI)

PPVI aims to vaccinate 2,000 tourism players by Sunday

KUCHING: The federal Tourism, Arts and Culture Ministry (Motac), Sarawak Motac and other agencies have set up the first Tourism Sector Industrial Covid-19 vaccination centre (PPVI) in the country. The PPVI, which is also a collaboration with the Sarawak Tourism Federation (STF), Ministry of Health (MoH) as well as Timberland

We have done nothing wrong

KUCHING: Serba Dinamik’s founder and group chief executive officer Datuk Dr Mohd Abdul Karim Abdullah yesterday reiterated that the company has done nothing wrong after its external auditor KPMG PLT (KPMG) raised red flags on the company’s financial accounts. “Serba Dinamik has very strong fundamentals and we hope that after

Hello, get your facts right, says MP

KUCHING: Democratic Action Party (DAP) Sarawak’s Tanjung Batu assemblyman Chiew Ching Sing has been urged to get his facts right before attacking the Sarawak government’s effort to curb the Covid-19 situation. Bintulu MP Datuk Seri Tiong King Sing said that Chiew’s allegation that the government had failed to conduct free

Kampung Lutong PPV targets 2,100 people in five days

SEBUYAU: The vaccination centre (PPV) at the Kampung Lutong Community Hall, which started operations on Monday in Sebangan, is expected to vaccinate a total of 2,100 people until this Friday. Sebuyau assemblyman Datuk Julaihi Narawi said this meant that the Ministry of Health (MOH) through the Sebangan Health Clinic targeted