Council set up entry, exit points to public market
MUKAH: The Dalat and Mukah District Council (MDDM) has drawn up a diagram of entry and exit to Mukah public market as a move to curb the spread of Covid-19 virus. According to the council’s assistant environmental health officer Nazir Besiri, the diagrams were posted at the three places, which started with the My Sejahtera […]
PMU fetes staff on transfer
MUKAH: Politeknik Mukah (PMU) here feted one of its staff members who is on transfer, to a simple reception at the campus today. Johan Mat who has been with PMU for the last eight years was accorded the fete in appreciation of his contribution and service at the institution. Heading the Information Technology Unit holding […]
Druggie nabbed inside parked car
MUKAH: Police nabbed a 36-year-old man here for possessing drug last Wednesday. Mukah District police chief DSP Jimmy Panyau said at about 9.15am, police conducted a check on a Proton Preve car parked at Dataran Pehin Setia Raja here. A man who acted suspiciously inside the car was arrested and checks inside the vehicle found […]
Sarawakians respect each other
MUKAH: The Kuala Lumpur High Court’s March 10 ruling on the use of the word ‘Allah’ and three other Arabic words for non-Muslims in their religious education and books is not a matter of who won or lost, or to humiliate any religion but respect for religious tolerance in Sarawak, said Tellian assemblyman Yussibnosh Balo. […]
Volunteers mull setting up crocodile hunters group
MUKAH: Volunteers here mull setting up a crocodile hunters group to facilitate proper hunting of the reptiles in Batang Oya. Dalat and Mukah District Council (MDDM) councillor Arini Suhaili said interested individuals who wished to join the group must own a rifle and shooting licence. “With the establishment of the group, permit for hunting and […]
Mukah District goes from orange to yellow
KUCHING: Mukah District, previously an orange zone, is now yellow after recording only a total of 15 local infection cases in the past 14 days. Sarawak Disaster Management Committee (SDMC) chairman Datuk Amar Douglas Uggah Embas said this in the daily Covid-19 update press conference here on Thursday (March 18). “Song, Serian, Subis, Julau, Betong, […]
Register with association, hawkers and traders urged
MUKAH: More than 300 hawkers and small traders around here are urged to register as members of the Mukah Hawkers and Small Traders Association (PPPKM). PPPKM chairman Norman Sudin said joining the association would facilitate the hawkers and small traders’ affairs in the future. “The establishment of PPPKM is to unite and strengthen the bonds […]
Mukah’s cobblers under one roof
MUKAH: The construction of a small building to house cobblers in the old town here was completed about a month ago. Measuring about 10x30x10 feet, the building is made of metal sheet, which is also used for its roofing. The building is divided into three rooms, specially stated as Kiosk 1, 2 and 3. New […]
Ah Peng!… Ah Peng!
Three decades of selling from floating mini shop for a livelihood MUKAH: It has been a routine for a senior citizen every morning for 30 years to ride a small boat down the Batang Mukah to sell goods to villagers in the interior. Some readers are surely confused as to how does one go for […]
Stern warnings on false info
MUKAH: The district police have issued stern warnings to people not to spread false news regarding the positive Covid-19 cases in Mukah. Any party found spreading unauthentic information and rumours regarding Covid-19 will be subjected to legal action, said district police chief DSP Jimmy Panyau. “Recently, there have been activities by some people who dare […]
