Author: Duwin Udih

Weighing scales must be verified annually

MUKAH: Weighing scales used by traders must be verified once in every 12 months and valid for 12 months only after the date of verification. It is aimed at ensuring accuracy of weighing thereby protecting consumers from being short-changed. Head of Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Mukah branch,

SMK Dalat wins big in national innovation contest

DALAT: SMK Dalat recorded a remarkable achievement at the recent National-level Research and Innovation in Education e-Seminar (e-SPeDIP2020) in Miri when it won two gold medals. The students and teachers innovation group’s creation, Pintar Bahasa game, and the teacher’s innovation, INSTRUKA Module, won the hearts of the judges. SMK Dalat

SMK Balingian project in tender process

BALINGIAN: The proposed Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan (SMK) Balingian project is in the tendering process, said deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Sabah and Sarawak Affairs) Datuk Hanifah Hajar Taib. It is understood that the locals, who have been waiting for about two decades for a school to be built

Liverpool fans celebrate EPL win

MUKAH: Local Liverpool Football Club (LFC) fans celebrated the club’s success in winning the 2019/2020 English Premier League (EPL) title here yesterday. Some 20 Liverpool fans turned up at Shaff Café here yesterday and Friday (June 26) to jointly celebrate the occasion, in response to an invitation by another fan

Demand for laptops on the rise

MUKAH: Demand for laptop computers here has increased lately and stocks are also running out fast. A computer dealer identified only as Sim claimed that one of reasons for a high demand could be due to e-learning, which has become part of a new normal following the movement restrictions due

Appreciation event held to thank frontliners

MUKAH: A ceremony to thank and appreciate workers of the divisional and district disaster management committees was held at Mukah New Administrative Centre here yesterday. Welfare, Community Wellbeing, Women, Family and Childhood Development Minister Datuk Seri Fatimah Abdullah said the workers were actually the frontliners who were involved in their

Mukah needs more banks

MUKAH: A long queue of people at a bank here caught the attention of the Mukah Resident Office. Mukah Division Resident Hamdiah Bakir said she took note of the situation as some Bantuan Prihatin Nasional (BPN) recipients, as reported, came very early in the morning to get their transactions done.

Proper work place for cobblers soon

MUKAH: Two cobblers currently using a narrow walkway at a dry market here as a work space will soon have a proper one. This is obviously good news for the duo, who have been sharing the walkway with passers-by for as long as they can remember. On Wednesday, Tellian assemblyman

Shocking new bus fares

MUKAH: Most passengers are shocked by the new fares after bus companies resumed operations about two weeks ago. The operations were suspended for about two months following the implementation of the movement control order (MCO) due to Covid-19 pandemic.  “Now the bus fare from Sibu to Mukah has increased from

Four injured in truck-lorry crash

MUKAH: A scavenger truck driver sustained serious head injury after his vehicle was involved in an accident with a lorry at KM1Jalan Mukah-Balingian here on Monday (June 22). The victim was identified only as Tusiman, 32, an Indonesian national, who was found unconscious at the accident scene. Lorry driver Mohamad