Author: Aina Azizah Yeo

Provide clearer picture, government urged

SIBU: Sibu Businesswomen Association wants the federal government to provide a clearer picture following its decision to implement partial lockdown. Its president Jamie Tiew Yen Houng, in a statement yesterday, said the directive by the federal government that the country was in “partial” lockdown had left many businesses in the

Is panic-buying justified?

KUCHING: The State Disaster Management Committee has announced that as of yesterday, Covid-19 positive cases have increased to 34 statewide. And the public went into panic-buying at supermarkets, hypermarkets and even ordinary grocery shops after the first three Covid-19 positive cases were announced on March 14. Just like what happened

Tegas bootcamp open for applications

KUCHING: Applications are now open for the 2020 Tegas Pre-Accelerator Bootcamp (TPAB) which will run from April 13-18 at SMA-Tegas Digital Innovation Hub (DIH), Kuching. Tabung Ekonomi Gagasan Anak Sarawak (Tegas) will be working closely with strategic partners, Sarawak Multimedia Authority (SMA), pitchIN and WatchTower and Friends Accelerator for the

Taman Sri Jaya residents gets new hall

SRI AMAN: The desire of Taman Sri Jaya residents to have a place for handicraft activities came true with the completion of renovation and expansion of the multipurpose hall here. Assistant Community Wellbeing Minister Datuk Francis Harden Hollis, who is also the patron, officiated the reopening of the JKKK (Dayak)

Council doing its best to solve Kota Samarahan traffic jam

MPKS to solve traffic jam KUCHING: Kota Samarahan Municipal Council (MPKS) will continue to reach out to the Ministry of Transport and Public Works Department (JKR) regarding the traffic congestion in Kota Samarahan. MPKS chairman Datuk Peter Minos said the council had been at the receiving end of daily and

RM2.5 million in contraband seizure since January

KUCHING: Nineteen cases involving seizures totalling RM2.5 million statewide were recorded by the Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs (KPDNHEP) since Jan 1 until March. Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Ministry (KPDNHEP) Deputy Director of Enforcement Operations Low Swee Hon said seizures of sugar, diesel and liquefied petroleum gas

Pat on the back for CM

KUCHING: Batu Kitang assemblyman Lo Khere Chiang lauded Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Abang Johari Tun Openg’s recent decision for Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS) to be in the federal Cabinet. He said with the move made by Abang Johari, nine GPS leaders were now in the new Federal Cabinet line-up to

Back-door PN govt accusation ‘mischievous’

BETONG: Accusation that Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS) had helped in forming a back-door Perikatan Nasional (PN) government has been described as “mischievous”. “When the Pakatan Harapan (PH) government collapsed, there was no ‘rumah’ (house) at all. “So how can people accuse us of forming a ‘pintu belakang‘ (back door) government

Cuepacs Sarawak hopes for better govt

KUCHING: Congress of Union of Employees in the Public and Civil Services (Cuepacs) Sarawak branch hopes the new federal Cabinet would have integrity, transparency, and be more efficient in taking care of the people, especially civil servants. Cuepacs Sarawak chairman Ahmad Malie congratulated Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin for

50 take part in workshop

KUCHING: Fifty participants completed the fourth series of a three-day Friendly Neighbourhood Empowerment (KJM) 2020 workshop organised by Kuching North City Commission (DBKU), yesterday. Its mayor Datuk Junaidi Reduan attended the closing ceremony held at Majma Mall here. The objective of the workshop is to encourage the involvement of target