MIRI: Five businessmen separately claimed trial at the Miri Sessions Special Court (Corruption) here yesterday to offering bribes to immigration officers. Four of them, Zubair Muhamad Fazal Mahmood, 25, Hayat Ullah Said Afzal Khan,37, Asghar Khan, 35, and Asghar Ali Hanif-Ur-Rahman,40, are Pakistanis while Abdullah Mohd Ali, 55, is Malaysian.
LIMBANG: The police here managed to nab five men for playing ‘holo’ at Kampung Bebuluh, Jalan Tedungan here last Friday. According to Limbang District Police chief, Superintendent Mohd Bukhori Saffai all the suspects did not realise the police presence before the place was raided at 5.45pm. Among items seized from
KUCHING: A jobless 35-year-old man was arrested for drug possession under Section 39(1) of the Dangerous Drug Act, 1952 which carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment, fine and whipping upon conviction. The suspect from Nanas Road West here is also to be charged for drug-taking. Last Monday at
KUCHING: When a marketing executive from Jalan Arang here returned home to a house at Jalan Airport where she rented a room around 3.30pm on Monday, she was shocked to find that the door to her room had been forced open. After checking, the woman found out that a water
KUCHING: A motorcyclist died on the spot at Mile 10, Kuching-Serian Road around 9am last Monday after the motorcycle he was riding collided with a lorry. The deceased identified as Bahar bin Sahmat, 69, of Kpg Paya Mebi, Kota Padawan was on his way to the city when the accident
KUCHING: SG Education Group will organise a pilot project in Dalat, offering short-term programmes and scholarships to 425 unemployed youths, single mothers and former athletes from the area. The unemployed youths comprise Higher Learning Institutions (IPT) graduates and Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) and Sijil Tinggi Pelajaran Malaysia (STPM) school leavers.
For many years, women have played a huge part in the world with great social, economics and also political achievements. But there was a point in time the female gender were greatly oppressed to the point where the disparity of treatment between men and women caused the latter to be
KUCHING: The government of Canada in partnership with Girls Not Brides is hosting a photo exhibition entitled “Girls’ Voices: Speaking Out Against Child Marriage” at The Spring. The exhibition, located on the first floor of the north court of the shopping mall, will open from 10 to 12 March (10am
KUCHING: Council Members of the Sarawak Business Federation (SBF) led by its President, Datuk Abang Haji Abdul Karim Tun Abang Haji Openg recently paid a courtesy call on the State Secretary, Tan Sri Datuk Amar Haji Mohd Morshidi bin Abdul Ghani at Wisma Bapa Malaysia. “It was a fruitful
KUCHING: On the surface, Kuching City might seem somewhat unremarkable, even mundane to those who grew up here, but its streets have plenty of stories to tell. Seven passionate photographers are putting up their favourite photos on display and sale at the Art Space, ChinaHouse at the Old Courthouse from
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