Saturday, 31 January 2026

Author: ST Editor

Athletes, officials begin registering for SUKMA

KUCHING: Registration for athletes and team officials participating in the 21st Malaysia Games (SUKMA XXI) in Sarawak 2024 begins today. The Delegation Registration Meeting (DRM) will be held until tomorrow (Aug 8) at Bilik Asajaya, Grand Margherita Hotel here. This morning’s session featured hosts Sarawak, along with contingents from Perak

Sweden’s Duplantis sets new world record to win men’s pole vault gold

PARIS: Sweden’s Armand Duplantis broke his own world record to successfully defend his pole vault title at the Paris Olympics on Monday. Duplantis cleared 6.25 metres on his third and final attempt, surpassing his previous mark of 6.24 metres set in April, Xinhua reported. American Sam Kendricks took silver and

The Drums of War

By MAYA GREEN The drums of war are surely beatingSome ostentatiously, some just softlyThere’s no hiding, their ominous meaningWhether beaten in anger, or only just gently deceptively The drums of war are surely beatingThe hour is fast approaching, very certainlyFrom bad to worse, will be the certain swingA return to

University publishers seeks collaboration with China

BEIJING: Malaysian university publishers are eager to forge collaborations with the Higher Education Press of China. This is following a visit to the Higher Education Press by Malaysian university publishers and private publishing houses. It marked a significant step towards fostering international collaborations in educational publishing.In academic publishing industry, a

SMK St. Elizabeth attains best ever results

SIBU: SMK St. Elizabeth here has achieved the best ever 2023 Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) results in its history. According to the school principal, Chee Hue Yiang, out of the 170 candidates who sat for the examination, 89 students or 52 per cent obtained at least 5A and above. She

13 rounded up in pre-dawn immigration sweep

SARIKEI: A peaceful night’s rest turned into a nightmare for undocumented immigrants here as Immigration enforcement officers came knocking on their doors in the wee hours of Friday (June 7). In an operation codenamed ‘Ops Sapu’, the Sarikei Immigration Enforcement Unit raided seven locations around Sarikei and Bintangor, targeting rental

Coach not pressing panic button over injuries

PETALING JAYA: Despite being beset by a series of injuries to key players, Harimau Malaya head coach Kim Pan Gon remains optimistic about fielding a quality lineup for the remaining two matches of Group D in the second round of the 2026 World Cup/2027 Asian Cup Qualifiers against Kyrgyzstan and

32 obtain RPEL qualifications from Sarawak Skills

KUCHING: SeDidik Sarawak celebrated the achievement of 32 staff members who successfully completed a range of skills certificate and diploma courses through Sarawak Skills’ Recognition of Prior Experiential Learning (RPEL) programme. According to a press release by SeDidik Sarawak today, the initiative provides individuals with a platform to demonstrate competencies

MA63: Nine demands resolved, says Fadillah

KUALA LUMPUR: A total of nine demands concerning the Malaysia Agreement 1963 (MA63) have been fully resolved to date, according to Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Fadillah Yusof. He said among the matters that had been settled involved the handover of administrative authority over Pulau Sipadan and Pulau Ligitan to