Public invited to join “Lantern of Unity” at MBKS tomorrow
KUCHING: Sarawak United People’s Party (SUPP) Central Women Section and Southern Zone women will organise another lantern parade, dubbed as “Lantern of Unity” at Kuching South City Council (MBKS) Park tomorrow (Sept 9) at 7pm. Its Women chief Kho Teck Wan said the event is held in conjunction with the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival, similar to […]
Moon Cake Festival and Market on Sept 10-11
KUCHING: A ‘Fly Me to the Moon’ Mid-Autumn Festival and Market will be held here. The festival organised by the Kuching South City Council (MBKS) will be held at Palmarium Garden and residence No.6, Jalan Tan Sri Datuk William Tan on Sept 10 and 11 from 10am to 9pm. “These programme is the first to […]
E-wastes collection campaign this Sunday
KUCHING: An Electrical and Electronic Waste (BEE) collection campaign will be held at Mayor Swee Guan Park this Sunday (Sept 11). The campaign, jointly organised by the Department of Environment (DoE) together with Natural Resources and Environment Board, Kuching South City Council (MBKS) and Trienekens will be on from 8:30am to 4:30pm. Members of the […]
Spare a thought for stateless Sarawakians
KUCHING: A mechanism should be in place to ensure undocumented Sarawakians are not left out of healthcare services. In stating this, Kuching South City Council (MBKS) Mayor Datuk Wee Hong Seng pointed out that the urban poor in Sarawak face many social challenges that affect their health. Taking the undocumented ones as an example, he […]
Boy Pablo to feature at music and arts festival
KUCHING: Chilean-Norwegian indie-pop act Boy Pablo and Indonesian rapper Ramengvrl have been announced as the headliners of the Sunbear Music and Arts Festival here in the city. According to the organiser in a press release, the two-day festival is slated to take place at the Kuching South City Council (MBKS) Community Hall car park from […]
Kuching Food Festival visitors hit record 1 mln mark
KUCHING: It was beyond expectations. The Kuching Food Festival (KFF) which ended last Sunday (Aug 21) notched up one million visitors – exceeding the initially-targeted 500,000 visitors. Said an ecstatic Kuching City South Council (MBKS) Mayor Datuk Wee Hong Seng: “We targeted half a million people (to the food fair), but we broke the record […]
Hwong defies age with love for maths
KUCHING: The old adage ‘age is just a number’ is best exemplified by Hwong Yew Tuong who at 81 is still adept at mathematics. The octogenarian from Sibu was among the more than 200 participants who turned up for the Kuching’s Got Talent 2022 audition. His performance entitled ‘Magic of Mathematics’ may not not have […]
MBKS plastic straw initiative makes headway
KUCHING: City dwellers have been urged to join an initiative by the Kuching South City Council (MBKS) and Kuching North City Commission (DBKU) to reduce the usage of harmful plastic and polystyrene wastes. MBKS Mayor, Datuk Wee Hong Seng said the council’s rice straw initiative has so far successfully prevented 1.7 million plastic straws from […]
200k visitors as fiesta manifests unity
KUCHING: Kuching Festival started off with a bang by recording over 200,000 visitors in the first week. Kuching South City Council (MBKS) mayor Datuk Wee Hong Seng said on its first night alone, the festival recorded an impressive entrance of visitors numbering about 60,000 through the gates. “By the end of the first weekend, over […]
Eyeing bigger, grander future Kuching Festival
KUCHING: Kuching South City Council (MBKS) hopes to see next year’s Kuching Festival to be held at bigger and grander scale along with improved facilities as compared to this year. Organising chairman this year Cr Goh Tze Hui said the festival could be rated as one of the largest open-air functions to be held annually […]
