KUCHING: Welfare, Community Well-being, Women, Family and Childhood Development Minister Datuk Seri Fatimah Abdullah is hoping that more seats would be allocated to women candidates in the next state election. “We need to improve in terms of representation of women,” she told reporters after officiating at Women Leadership Training Programme
KUCHING: Exhibitors, speakers and participants from over 15 countries have started to arrive for the prestigious 13th Asia Pacific Orchid Conference 2019 (APOC 13). These visitors, hailing from Japan, Singapore, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, Hong Kong, China, Brunei, Macao, Taiwan, Australia and Malaysia, are participating in the Orchid
KUCHING: For transparency’s sake, a regulatory body in charge of pageants should be established, said Supermodel Universe Borneo (SUB) state director Dr Deborah Chong (pic). She said this in agreement with beauty pageant organiser Alaric Soh who said that a regulatory body would help with reducing the notoriety of some
KUCHING: Padungan assemblyman Wong King Wei has charged that Sarawak Multimedia Authority (SMA) has been approving the construction of a multitude of telecommunication (telco) towers in heavily populated areas all over Sarawak. During a press conference held yesterday at King Wei & Clement Advocates and Solicitors, he said, “It seems
KUCHING: The automatic registration of voters will significantly save on manpower and resources, said Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) Women national vice president Voon Shiak Ni. She cited as examples how political parties and rights groups previously had to hold registration drives in order to register voters. “While women in some
KUCHING: The automatic registration of 18-year-old citizens following the amendment to the Federal Constitution will increase registered voters in Sarawak from 1.22 million in the 14th General Election in 2018 to 2.04 million in the next general election. This drastic increase of 820,000 voters from the roll in GE14 was
KUCHING: The government has been urged to start educating school children on the constitution, voting rights and democracy, said Sarawak Patriots Association (SPA) president Datuk John Lau Pang Heng. He felt that the younger generation should be educated from Form One onwards, to make them competent in political matters by
KUCHING: Whichever party gets the majority support of rural voters will be the final winner, predicts Padungan assemblyman Wong King Wei. He said this while commenting on the recent amendments to the Federal Constitution authorising automatic registration of voters and the lowering of the minimum voting age from 21 to
KUCHING: Malaysians have generally accepted the government’s decision to lower the voting age from 21 to 18. Political analyst Datuk Peter Minos believed that the country’s law-makers, in passing the Bill to effect the change in Parliament last Tuesday, have operated on the assumption that at 18, a person is
KUCHING: An improved longhouse concept proposed by the Fire and Rescue Department (Bomba) that includes fire safety features approved by the Sarawak government can be a significant effort in curbing fire outbreaks. The first of these improved longhouses to be constructed and then completed in 2017 was Rumah Collin Sait
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