Costly air tickets and voters are unrelated
KUCHING: The high prices of flight tickets to Sarawak are not to prevent voters from returning to vote for the upcoming state election. Petra Jaya Member of Parliament Datuk Seri Fadillah Yusof slammed the statement by some quarters claiming that the phenomenon of costly flight ticket prices to Sarawak was deliberately designed so that those […]
MCO could cause economic standstill
KUCHING: The implementation of movement control order (MCO) will cause a standstill in the state’s economy, opined economist Datuk Dr Madeline Berma. “When the government implemented the MCO last year, it greatly affected the Malaysian economy as a whole. “It resulted in an economic standstill where both the production and consumption were affected,” she said. […]
Lack of internet access, devices dampen PdPR in Sarawak
KUCHING: Lack of devices, limited internet access and not much confidence in the effectiveness of the home-based teaching and learning (PdPR) method, which began on Wednesday, are among concerns expressed by the people of Sarawak. Bernama today contacted several parents and teachers in the state to see their response to this new PdPR approach. A […]
Government denies vaccine more costly than in Belgium
KUALA LUMPUR: The government today has denied that the cost of Covid-19 vaccines for a Malaysian are more expensive than in Belgium. Commenting on the matter, Deputy Finance Minister II, Mohd Shahar Abdullah said the Belgian government had ordered 33.5 million doses of vaccines to be given to 16.7 million people in the country at […]
Building bridges — challenging and costly
MUKAH: The bridge component in the Pan Borneo Highway project is not only challenging but costly. New Sarawak Tribune last Wednesday observed that there were a few bridges being built along the ongoing Pan Borneo Highway from Sibu to Selangau-Bintulu junction. The length of the bridge depends on the width of the river or the […]
