Planning to make Kuching Old Bazaar attract more visitors

KUCHING: With more plans in place to rejuvenate Kuching Old Bazaar, the Tourism, Arts, and Culture Ministry hopes that it would attract more visitors to the area. The Kuching Old Market Community Association (Komca), supported by the ministry, have managed to come up with the cultural mapping project, historical book telling life stories of the […]

Minister chides ‘missing’ DBKU

KUCHING: Tourism, Arts and Culture Minister Datuk Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah has called out Kuching North City Commission (DBKU) for not ‘showing up’ at a local community-led programme today. He noticed that DBKU officials were not present at the programme initiated by the local community under the DBKU jurisdiction and stressed that they should be […]

A tourist attraction in the making

KUCHING OLD BAZAAR KUCHING: Efforts to rejuvenate the Kuching Old Bazaar here through a cultural mapping and tourism promotion programme will transform it into an excellent heritage tourism product. Tourism, Arts and Culture Minister Datuk Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah said the idea was first mooted and presented to the ministry by the Kuching Old Market […]

A state heritage

Kuching Old Bazaar KUCHING: The Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture Sarawak is looking to gazette the Kuching Old Bazaar as a state heritage site. Minister Datuk Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah said he would discuss further on the matter with the Kuching Old Market Community Association (Komca). “We have to consult the owners in the […]