Author: Nur Ashikin Louis

Sabati donates RM85,000 for charity

KUCHING: Association of Wives of Ministers and Assistant Ministers of Sarawak (Sabati) president Datin Patinggi Datuk Juma’ani Tuanku Bujang presented donations to 11 recipients totalling RM85,000. The donations were financial assistance to two special children and four patients needing long-term medical care, 150 mattresses to Sarawak Orphans Welfare Organisation (Peryatim)

Right on track to 1 mln hectares of forest plantations

KUCHING: Sarawak has so far utilised 420,146 hectares to develop industrial forest plantations. Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Abang Johari Tun Openg said this is in line with the state government’s goal of turning one million hectares into plantations by 2020. He said that the state has been creating industrial forest

Patriots want changes to Fed Constitution

KUCHING: The federal government has been urged to amend the Federal Constitution during the coming sitting of Parliament from March 11 to April 11. Sarawak Patriots Association (SPA) chairman Datuk Lau Pang Heng in the press statement issued yesterday requested the federal government to not only amend Article 1(2) but

Master and cultivate knowledge, students told

KOTA SAMARAHAN: Mastering knowledge is important, as is cultivating it, says an academic from Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (Unimas). Unimas deputy vice chancellor Prof Datuk Mohd Fadzil Abdul Rahman was addressing participants at the “Knowledge Cultivation Seminar” here today. A joint collaboration between the Unimas Community Conservation Centre and Sarawak Islamic

Centre named after CM’s wife takes welfare a notch up

KUCHING: Free counselling services and family and social guidance is what Datuk Amar Hajah Juma’ani Welfare Centre is all about. The two-storey facility at Jalan Kulas here, which was declared open yesterday by Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Abang Johari Tun Openg, will operate from 8am to 5pm Monday to Friday.

MaSCo Explorace attracts 54 students

KUCHING: Fifty four students participated in the MaSCo Explorace 2019 at the State Library here yesterday. According to the programme director cum lecturer of Kuching Polytechnic Ruzaihan Jaffar, there were three activities which involved mathematics, science and the computer. “The activities include bottle-flipping, a book search using mobile phones through

Six-month ‘education’ for smoking ban

Enforcement is done after the grace period, says divisional health officer KOTA SAMARAHAN: The smoking ban will start with six months of education programmes and after that, the regulation and Act will be fully enforced, said Samarahan divisional health officer Dr Nur Fatihah Oh Abdullah. She said this in her

State has enough local products to export, says Uggah

KUCHING: Sarawak is confident of having more local products with the potential for export. “I was concerned with not having enough local products to export in the past but I am no longer worried now,” Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Amar Douglas Uggah Embas said after taking a walk round the

Collaborative research discovers new plant species

KUCHING: A 20-year research has resulted in the discovery of more than five new species of plants and more than 40 new species at the Bukit Lambir National Park. This was revealed by four researchers from the Japan Research Consortium for Tropical Forests in Sarawak (JRCTS). The research was a

Unimas wins 13 awards at MTE 2019

KOTA SAMARAHAN: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (Unimas) won 13 awards at the Malaysia Technology Expo 2019 (MTE 2019) held in Kuala Lumpur from Feb 21 to 23. It won a special award, courtesy of International Alliance of Innovation and Invention Associations for its innovation titled“Antimicrobial Starch-Based Film for Food Packaging Applications”,