School receives RM201,570 state fund
SRI AMAN: SJK(C) Chung Hua Simanggang school management board is urged to be prudent when spending funds to develop the school. Community Wellbeing Assistant Minister Datuk Francis Harden made the call when presenting a cheque for RM201,570 to the school here, yesterday. “The money is to upgrade the school’s infrastructure facilities. “This allocation is from […]
MP doles out RM300K in grants
MIRI: Sibuti MP Lukanisman Awang Sauni distributed a total of RM300,000 in state government grants to various associations and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in his constituency in the last two days. Yesterday, nine NGOs including schools’ Parent-Teacher Associations (PTAs) received the grants. “This is part of the initiative by the state government under the Gabungan Parti […]
Australia gets recovery fund
SYDNEY: Reserve troops fanned out across fire-ravaged regions in three Australian states yesterday after a horror weekend, as the government pledged $1.4 billion over two years to help recover from the devastating months-long crisis. Catastrophic bush fires have turned swathes of land into smouldering, blackened hells capes and destroyed an area about the size of […]
RTP project fund well utilised
SARIKEI: Repok assemblyman Datuk Seri Huang Tiong Sii recently paid a visit to Unity Methodist Church, Merudu to inspect the church’s renovation project. Huang had given an allocation worth RM100,000 under the Rural Transformation Programme (RTP) to the church. The project, which was completed recently, included roofing, tile replacement and building repairs. Meanwhile, a representative […]
World Bank fund for poor nations gets boost
PARIS: A key World Bank fund dedicated to lifting countries out of poverty has received a record $82 billion in funding and pledges for the next three years, its president said Friday. This represented a $7 billion increase on the previous three-year term, and is “the largest-ever replenishment” of the International Development Association (Ida), said […]
RM30.7m for kidney patients
KUCHING: The Sarawak government has approved an allocation of RM30, 785,584 in special aid for kidney patients in the state over a five-year period. Its implementation will kick off next year with a projected sum of RM4,673,917, followed by RM5,505,517 in 2021, RM6,187,117 (2022), RM6,868,717 (2023) and RM7,550,317 (2024). The allocations will cover annual distribution […]
