KUCHING: Sarawak recorded 14 new positive Covid-19 cases on Monday, bringing the total number in the state to 906. Deputy Chief Minister, Datuk Amar Douglas Uggah Embas said all cases were reported here. He said five of the new cases came from the Green Hill Cluster. “One of them was
KUCHING: A new Covid-19 cluster, dubbed the Wisma Saberkas Cluster, has been identified in Sarawak. Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Amar Douglas Uggah Embas said the addition of the newly declared cluster brings the number of active clusters in the state to six. The other five clusters are the Bah Arnab
KUCHING: Sarawakians are advised not to travel to Kuching district, a Covid-19 red zone, while Kuchingites are also advised not to travel outside the district within these two weeks. Deputy Chief Minister, Datuk Amar Douglas Uggah Embas gave this advice during a press conference on the State Disaster Management Committee
KUCHING: Whenever the federal budget is tabled in Parliament, Sarawak expects greater allocations, says Assistant Utilities (Water Supply) Minister Datuk Dr Abdul Rahman Junaidi. He said this in response to Finance Minister Datuk Seri Tengku Zafrul on Budget 2021 and confirmed that Budget 2021 would be bigger than Budget 2020,
KUCHING: Sarawakians are torn over the suggestion to allow withdrawal from Account 1 of their Employees Provident Fund (EPF) savings. On Saturday, Malaysians urged the federal government to allow contributors to withdraw a certain portion of their EPF savings to address challenges caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Prime Minister Tan
KUCHING: The state is expected to have cold and rainy weather until March next year. This is due to the monsoon transition phase. According to the weather forecast on the Malaysian Meteorological Department’s website, the rainy weather will include thunderstorms over inland areas in the evening and at night. “The
SIBU: A 60-year-old woman lost RM47,500 in a love scam. Sibu district police chief ACP Stanley Jonathan Ringgit said that the victim is an administrative staff who ‘fell in love’ with a man named ‘Richie Weng’ on Facebook in July. After four months of courtship, the man told the victim
IGAN: A family of five, including a two-year-old toddler, had a brush with death when their house at Kampung Skrang here was engulfed in flames today (Oct 15). According to the State Fire and Rescue Department (Bomba), six firefighters were despatched to the scene following an alert received at 2.10am.
SARATOK: A car caught fire at Kampung Empelam here last Tuesday (Oct 13). According to State Fire and Rescue Department (Bomba), six firefighters were despatched to the scene in a response to an alert on the incident received at 10.26pm. Upon their arrival, the car was found 70 percent damaged
SIBU: The man who fell off an express boat that was heading to Daro on Monday (Oct 12) has been found drowned. His body was discovered floating about 150m from the location where he fell overboard. The Fire and Rescue Department (Bomba) said the 39-year-old victim was seated at the
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