KUCHING: Sarawak United Peoples’ Party (SUPP) Public Complaints Bureau (PCB) has urged the government to consider tightening existing housing laws, by making it mandatory that completed houses be inspected by specially trained third-party independent inspectors before the issuance of occupation permit (OP) by the local council. SUPP Public Complaints Bureau
KUCHING: Transport Minister Datuk Lee Kim Shin recently experienced for himself the free school bus services as well as check on operations. A statement from the Ministry of Transport Sarawak (MoTS) said that at around 5.30am on Thursday (Sept 3), Lee took a school bus ride in the Sungai Apong
NCR LANDS KUCHING: Native customary rights (NCR) landowners are assured of their rights to the lands as long they have been surveyed and validated under the Sarawak Land Code. Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Amar Awang Tengah Ali Hasan said this was why the state government insisted on surveying native lands,
KUCHING: Sarawak recorded no new positive Covid-19 cases today for the fifth consecutive day, with the total number of positive cases in the state thus far remaining unchanged at 699. In a statement today, the Sarawak Disaster Management Committee (SDMC) said that five new cases had recovered and been discharged
KUCHING: Sarawak Housing and Real Estate Developers’ Association (Sheda) Kuching branch chairman Sim Kiang Chiok thinks small contractors working on Rural Transformation Programme (RTP) projects in Sarawak may be facing several challenges. He said good and successful contractors in the state could possibly be experiencing a lack of working capital,
KUCHING: Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Abang Johari Tun Openg has asserted that United Malay National Organisation (Umno) will not be allowed to spread its wings to Sarawak. Describing Umno as ‘extreme’, he noted that some of its members had touched on religious sentiments. “West Malaysia-based parties do not know our
KUCHING: The Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS) state government is committed to help all communities including the Bidayuhs, said Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Abang Johari Tun Openg. He said this when handing over an initial RM6.75 million grant for the construction of Dayak Bidayuh National Association’s (DBNA) RM16 million community hostel.
NCR LAND SURVEY KUCHING: Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Abang Johari Tun Openg has slammed certain parties who had instigated the natives against the government’s sincere effort in surveying their native customary rights (NCR) lands. According to Abang Johari, more people have begun to accept the initiative where the lands are
KUCHING: The Dayak Bidayuh National Association (DBNA) today received an initial RM6.75 million government grant for the construction of its RM16 million community hostel building. Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Abang Johari Tun Openg presented a cheque for the amount to the association’s chief advisor and Minister of Education, Science and
KUCHING: UDA Holdings Berhad and the Sarawak Economic Development Corporation (SEDC) have inked a memorandum of agreement (MoA) for the joint venture development of a mixed development project here with a gross development value of RM480 million. The agreement was signed at a ceremony at Grand Margherita Hotel here yesterday
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