KUCHING: The High Court here today fixed March 2 for case management after allowing a judicial review application by five subsidiaries of Petroliam Nasional Bhd (PETRONAS) against a RM120-million penalty imposed by the Sarawak Gas Distribution Director and the Ministry of Utility and Telecommunications. Judge Dean Wayne allowed the application
KUCHING: The recent tragedy in Sibu Jaya that claimed the lives of three young children has highlighted the urgent need to ensure that environments accessible to children are safe and properly safeguarded at all times. Women, Early Childhood and Community Wellbeing Development Minister, Datuk Seri Fatimah Abdullah stressed that all
KUCHING: The Sessions Court here today (Feb 4) sentenced a nanny to one year’s imprisonment in default of a RM20,000 fine for physically abusing a one-year-old child under her care in December last year. 22-year-old Carol Phan pleaded guilty to the charge before Judge Musli Abdul Hamid. Phan was charged
KUCHING: A 41-year-old man was sentenced to 34 years in prison and 24 strokes of the cane by the Sessions Court on Tuesday (Feb 3) after being found guilty of sexually assaulting his stepdaughter on two separate occasions in 2022 and 2023. Judge Hakim Musli Abdul Hamid ordered the prison
KUCHING: A make-up artist pleaded not guilty at the Magistrates’ Court here on Tuesday (Feb 3) to a charge of sexually assaulting his client, a 30-year-old groom, prior to the latter’s wedding ceremony. The accused, 24, entered the plea after the charge was read before Magistrate Nursyaheeqa Nadzwa Radzali. He
KUCHING: A woman was fined RM2,500, in default two months’ imprisonment, by the Magistrates’ Court here today (Feb 3) for engaging in online gambling in a public place. Magistrate Ling Hui Chuan imposed the sentence on 38-year-old Maureen Simon, ordering that any custodial sentence be served from today (February 3).
KUCHING: A 26-year-old woman suffered losses amounting to RM161,200 after falling victim to a phone scam involving suspects impersonating officers from the National Scam Response Centre (NSRC) and the police. Kuching police chief ACP Alexson Naga Chabu said the incident occurred on January 7, when the victim was in a
BAU: Two men were arrested in separate drug raids around Kampung Segong and Kampung Stenggang here on Monday night (Feb 2), with police seizing 0.70 gramme of suspected methamphetamine worth about RM80. The arrests were carried out between about 6.30 pm and 9.30 pm by the Bau Narcotics Criminal Investigation
BINTULU: A vehicle was destroyed in a fire at the Islamic Cemetery in Kampung Kemunting here early this morning. No casualties reported in the incident. The Fire and Rescue Department (Bomba) said it received a distress call at 7.57am on the incident. A team from the Bintulu Fire and Rescue
KUCHING: The Magistrates’ Court here today sentenced a 53-year-old man to six months’ imprisonment for possessing 0.17 grams of methamphetamine. Magistrate Mason Jaro Lenya Barayan imposed the sentence on Jemi Jap after he pleaded guilty to the charge read before the court. The court ordered the jail term to run