Author: Magdalene Rogers

Cafe offers home-cooked Foochow cuisine

KUCHING: Fancy some home cooked Foochow cuisine in a cafe ambience? Check out Penn’s Pantry at Lorong Foochow 1 here. “It’s a pork free cafe and we are serving our signature Foochow fusion dishes which are our family recipes passed down from our grandmother to my mother and to us,”

ACCCIS holds dialogue to strengthen collaboration

KUCHING: The Associated Chinese Chambers of Commerce and Industry of Sarawak (ACCCIS) held a dialogue session today with the Ministry of Food Industry, Commodity and Regional Development. The delegation led by its President Datuk Tan Jit Kee was received by Dr. Gluma Saban, Head of Policy and Development Division at

SDI re-aligning mission objectives post pandemic

KUCHING: Sarawak Development Institute (SDI) is working on better aligning its mission and objectives, focus areas and activities with the state’s development agenda, such as the PCDS 2030. Its chairman Datuk Amar Jaul Samion who said this revealed it was necessitated by the Covid-19 pandemic which has caused a major

MATTA eyes RM3m in travel fair sales

KUCHING: Organisers of the 17th Sarawak MATTA Travel Fair 2023 are hoping to achieve a sales volume of RM3 million during the event which will be held in Kuching and Miri simultaneously. Malaysian Association of Tour and Travel Agents (MATTA) Sarawak chairman Oscar Choo said visitors to the fair will

KDJA to hold reunion dinner on March 6

KUCHING: The Journalists Association of Kuching Division Sarawak (KDJA) welcomes media and former media practitioners to its March 6 reunion dinner here. The organising committee said in a press release here yesterday that the reunion celebration dinner will be held at 6 pm that evening at the Grand Riverine Ballroom

Blood Donation Campaign 7.0 on Feb 25

KUCHING: Kuching Love Book Association will be having their seventh Blood Donation Campaign at Aeroville Mall (First Floor) from 9 am to 2 pm at Friday (Feb 25). Founder and chairperson of Kuching Love Book Association May Loo Hun Ing thanked the Blood Bank Sarawak General Hospital and Malaysian Red

Identity card’s documentation programme lauded

DALAT: The State Information Department’s visit at Dalat District through the People’s Love Programme (MEKAR) has assisted in the processing of identity card documents in the area. Minister of Women, Early Childhood and Community Wellbeing Development Datuk Seri Fatimah Abdullah said she was thankful to the MEKAR visit to Dalat

Yii wants action taken against Kapar MP

KUCHING: Bandar Kuching Dr.Kelvin Yii wants action taken against Kapar MP Dr Halimah Ali for misleading parliament. “I have requested that Speaker Datuk Johari Abdul approve a motion to refer Halimah to the Parliamentary Committee of Privileges under Standing Order 36(12) for making a clear statement that misled the House

Airbus’ H175 holds Borneo demo tour    

KUCHING: Airbus, with the support of Hornbill Skyways and HAS International, has deployed a H175 for its maiden flight demonstration tour in East Malaysia and Brunei. The week-long campaign which starts on Feb 20 will see the super medium twin-engine aircraft cover more than 2,200 km across Borneo, the world’s

Grant recipient gets roof of house repaired

KUCHING: A recipient of the Sarawak government’s Minor Rural Project (MRP) and the Rehabilitation of Poor House in Sarawak (PPRMS) programme, Chong Khoon Boo finally had repairs on the badly damaged roof of his house at Kampung Semeba near here completed. Yesterday he received a visit from the Kota Sentosa