BINTULU: The Sessions Court here sentenced four foreigners to eight years’ jail with three strokes of the cane each after they pleaded guilty to robbing a TESAI tanker in Bintulu waters in 2018. Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) Bintulu Zone acting director Maritime Commander Effendy Mohamed Fadil said the accused,
KUCHING: Two suspected drug dealers may see the gallows at the end of the line after narcotic police arrested them for possessing more than 50g of drugs on Thursday. The duo, aged 27 and 32, were arrested on suspicion of engaging in substance abuse in a hut at Kampung Midin,
TANJUNG MANIS: A search and rescue (SAR) operation was activated yesterday to locate a teenage boy feared drowned after a hangout with friends turned tragic at Sungai Batang Paloh late Thursday night. The incident is believed to have happened around 10.05pm when 17-year-old Alex Rudy Roy Ali was sitting on
KUCHING: Six fishing communities within the Santubong, Sadong Jaya and Kabong fishery districts received project equipment worth over RM189,000 under the 2021 Food Security Fund on Wednesday (Nov 10). The beneficiaries are from Kampung Salak, Kampung Buntal and Kampung Bako (Santubong); Sadong Jaya 1 and Sadong Jaya 2 (Sadong Jaya);
KUCHING: The dice stopped rolling for an online gambling syndicate which had earned about RM90,000 when police knocked on their doors here. Acting on information, police raided the syndicate which was operating out of a double storey house along Jalan Stampin Tengah around 5.10pm on Tuesday (Nov 9). An Indonesian
SIBU: The body of a man, who was reported missing since Nov 8, was found floating in the Bintangor River on Wednesday (Nov 10). A spokesman from the Fire and Rescue Department (Bomba) operations centre said the victim, identified as Ing Chung Kiew, 60, was found by the crew of
KUCHING: A man has passing motorists to thank for pulling him to safety after his car suddenly caught fire. It could have been worse for the man, who sustained injuries, had they not stopped following the mishap along Jalan Tun Abdul Rahman Yakub at midnight (Nov 10). A spokesman from
PADAWAN: Narcotics police arrested four men on suspicion of engaging in substance abuse at Jalan Batu Kawa on Monday (Nov 8). District police chief Supt Abang Zainal Abidin Abang Ahmad, who confirmed the case, said the team arrested the suspects in front of a house around 12.40pm. The police found
LIMBANG: The Marine Police here crippled a contraband smuggling syndicate and seized various duty-unpaid cigarettes and liquors worth around RM1.8 million on Nov 5. The team acting on intelligence gathered raided a terrace house used as a warehouse to store the uncustomed goods at Taman Sentosa. Sarawak Marine Police Region
BINTULU: The local Marine Police detained a fishing vessel and arrested four crew members on Monday (Nov 8) on suspicion of violating the legal conditions of their licence. Sarawak Marine Police Region Five commander ACP Zulfikar Mohd Ghazali, who confirmed the case, said the SF1 trawler fishing vessel was spotted
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