SIBU: As an active Rotarian, Jeffrey Yong Teck Chin has contributed up to $100,000 — more than RM400,000 — to charity. Speaking at a welcoming dinner organised by the Rotary Club of Sibu on Friday night, Yong who is an engineer by profession, said he is a Major Donor (Level
SIBU: Sibu Hospital will be the first in the state to be equipped with a drive-through facility for patients to pick up their medicine without having to park their cars. State assistant health director (pharmacy) Abu Hassan Alshaari Abdul Jabar said this after officiating at the state-level World Pharmacy Day
SIBU: An express boat bound for Kapit with 12 passengers ran aground yesterday at 7.45am near Lanang Bridge. A spokesman from Sarawak Rivers Board (SRB) when contacted said they are still determining whether the incident, which took place near Kanowit town along the Rajang River, was due to poor visibility
SIBU: A 43-year-old man has been arrested for driving recklessly and endangering the lives of police officers on beat duty. Sibu OCPD Asst Comm Stanley Jonathan Ringgit said at about 12.50pm on Sept 16, a 38-year-old police officer was on beat duty in an MPV with a colleague at the
SIBU: Organisers of blood donation campaigns are urged to hold at least five campaigns per year to ensure sufficient supply of blood at Sibu Hospital Blood Bank. Sibu Hospital director Dr Ngian Hie Ung revealed that there are many of these organisers in town but most only hold two blood
SIBU: The 10th Sibu International BASE Jump, which is slated to begin today (Sept 19) until Sept 22, will go on as scheduled despite the haze. However, Sibu Division Tourism Task Force chairman Charles Siaw stated that once the Air Pollutant Index (API) reading here reaches 200, the jump will
SIBU: Business operators nowadays have no other choice but to embrace the digital economy for their survival. A local boutique proprietor, Pearly Leong, is one of the business operators who were farsighted and daring enough to venture into the cyber space years ago before the term ‘digital economy’ came into being. Her
Reactions to Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s Shared Prosperity Vision SIBU: Sarawak Workers Party (SWP) president Munan Laja agrees with the Prime Minister’s views that more focus needed to be given on developing Sabah and Sarawak in line with the Shared Prosperity Vision policy. Speaking at the Berambeh Bersatu
SIBU: Sarawak United People’s Party Dudong assistant secretary Dr Wong Chya Wei said SUPP is not about to give up on Dudong state seat. Speaking at a press conference organised by the branch’s Youth and Women wings yesterday, Dr Wong said Dudong had always been won by SUPP, the party
SIBU: A labourer who stabbed an officer of the Sibu National Anti-drug Agency on the chest, was sentenced to a total 17 years and two months jail plus five strokes of the rotan by the Sessions Court here yesterday. Raymond Bakak Kinsing, 18, from Bandar Baru Permyjaya, Miri was given
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