Chinese culinary art on the menu at La Promenade
KUCHING: La Promenade Mall has a new Chinese classical restaurant, Foo Man Ting, offering a menu of premium dishes inspired by traditional paintings. The restaurant which opened about three weeks ago, means ‘Court Full of Luck’ in Chinese, and is helmed by chef Yong Chee Kian. Having worked in Singapore and Taiwan, Yong’s 36 years […]
More Dayaks encouraged in forming enterprises
KOTA SAMARAHAN: Chairman of the Kota Samarahan Municipal Council (MPKS), Datuk Peter Minos, is encouraging more Dayaks to establish enterprises other than food and beverages in Kota Samarahan. Despite the hurdles ahead, he urged Dayak entrepreneurs to remain determined and ambitious in their careers. “Many of the large and successful Chinese business groups began small […]
Kota Samarahan Municipal Council needs more engineers, architects
KUCHING: Kota Samarahan Municipal Council (MPKS) needs more engineers and architects to implement projects under the Integrated Regional Samarahan Development Agency (IRSDA). Chairman Datuk Peter Minos said MPKS faced a lack of staff to implement IRSDA projects in the future. “MPKS now has about 200 staff and that number includes two engineers, four assistant engineers, […]
Waste disposal carpark in Kota Samarahan irks Padungan rep
KOTA SAMARAHAN: Padungan assemblyman Chong Chieng Jen expressed his dismay over a carpark turned into a waste disposal site by illegal dumpers in Kota Samarahan. Hence, he called on Deputy Premier Datuk Seri Dr Sim Kui Hian who is the Public Health, Housing, and Local Government Minister to act on the matter. The car park […]
GPS safeguards state, uses ‘Sarawak First’ tagline
KUCHING: Political observer Datuk Peter Minos said that Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS) should focus on Sarawak and not be involved in West Malaysian politics. The Kota Samarahan Municipal Council (MPKS) chairman said that GPS must just concentrate and focus on Sarawak’s matters and affairs. In a statement yesterday, he said that this has led Sarawak […]
Samarahan council staff no idle bystanders
KUCHING: Staff in the Kota Samarahan Municipal Council (MPKS) are no idle bystanders as they are actively engaged in delivering the best services to the people. Sarawak United Peoples’ Party (SUPP) Stakan branch chairman Datuk Sim Kiang Chiok said their cohesiveness as a team was the reason why MPKS is said to be the most […]
Planning for poverty study in rural Samarahan
SAMARAHAN: Kota Samarahan City Council (MPKS) and Univesriti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) are planning on the details of poverty study in the rural parts of Samarahan, starting early 2023. Chairman of the council Datuk Peter Minos said that a number of villages had been picked as the focal points and as the bases for the study […]
Towards achieving sustainable development goals
SAMARAHAN: Samarahan has taken steps toward achieving sustainable development goals. As such, students from a local secondary school here have been introduced to the importance of environmental care and sex education among teenagers through sustainable development goal (SDG) programme. Organised by Kota Samarahan Municipal Council (MPKS), the programme was hosted in collaboration with SMK Kota […]
MPKS-UNIMAS joint study on rural poverty
KUCHING: Kota Samarahan Municipal Council (MPKS) will be collaborating with the Economics and Business Faculty of the Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) to conduct a joint study to address the issues of poverty in the rural parts of Samarahan. MPKS chairman Datuk Peter Minos said that the focus would be to find out the basic reasons […]
Joint effort to keep Samarahan clean
KUCHING: The Kota Samarahan Municipal Council (MPKS) and the Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) Faculty of Language and Communication are working together to make Samarahan a clean, safe, and green area. MPKS chairman Datuk Peter Minos said the collaboration would focus on educating the public under the United Nations’ (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to change […]
