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Sarawak Energy steps up digital capabilities

KUCHING: Sarawak Energy’s customer care and support is adapting to the new normal. To maintain consistent customer care service during the movement control order (MCO) period, it said both its utility and retail arm have also stepped up their digital capabilities. All these were part and parcel of the utility company’s efforts in playing its […]

Adjusting to the new normal

MUKAH: The new normal, to a certain extent, has slightly slowed down the pace of everyday life during the movement control order (MCO). Queuing before entering shopping centres perhaps is one of the new norms brought about by the MCO due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Experience has shown that shopping now cannot be done as […]

Sarawak workers ready to embrace new normal

SARAWAK WORKERS DAY KUCHING:  The International Workers’ Day today is a quiet affair amid the Coivid-19 pandemic, and those on the frontline have been working tirelessly to contain the spread of the virus. Congress of Unions of Employees in the Public and Civil Services (Cuepacs) Sarawak branch chairman Ahmad Malie said the Covid-19 pandemic had […]

FAMA’s Agrobazaar Online to become new normal after MCO

KUALA LUMPUR: The Federal Agricultural Marketing Authority (FAMA)’s online marketing platform Agrobazaar Online has the potential to become the new normal among consumers after the movement control order (MCO) is lifted. Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food Industry I Datuk Seri Ahmad Hamzah said since the implementation of MCO, the online marketplace has been registering […]

Life goes on with the ‘new normal’

KUCHING: Today, six days into the month of Ramadan, many Muslims have already adapted to the so-called ‘new normal’ that came about due to the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic. Even the movement control order (MCO) is beginning to feel like part of that new normal. Fasting is tough enough in the best of times, […]

Prepare quickly to face post Covid-19 economy

KUANTAN: The Regent of Pahang Tengku Hassanal Ibrahim Alam Shah Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah today said the state government must make prompt preparation to face the post Covid-19 economic scenario. He said a ‘new normal’ was expected to occur in the aspect of the economy and social following the spread of the Covid-19 plague faced […]

To spend Ramadan at home or in prison?

KUALA LUMPUR: Each year, Muslims in the country will travel to their hometowns to welcome the month of Ramadan with their families. The congested roads do not deter them, for as long as they get to eat sahur (pre-dawn meal), break the fast and perform the ‘tarawih’ prayers with their loved ones, at least on […]