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Sarawak News

Foreigner found dead

MIRI: The body of a foreign worker was found hanged with a wire around his neck inside the workers’ quarters of an oil palm plantation in Sungai Uban Bekenu, on Wednesday evening. According to Miri police chief ACP Lim Meng…

Margaret Ringgit
August 13, 2020

Prime, Sarawak News

Foreign labour still needed

KUCHING: The Sarawak Oil Palm Plantation Owners Association (Soppoa) appeals to the Human Resource Ministry to consider allowing the palm oil industry in Sarawak to continue hiring foreign workers during the duration of the year in view of the serious…

Tania Lam
June 24, 2020

Sarawak News

Plantation worker found dead

MIRI: A foreigner who worked at an oil palm plantation in Suai, Niah was found dead sandwiched between a multipurpose vehicle that he was driving and an oil palm tree on Wednesday morning. According to Miri police chief ACP Lim…

Margaret Ringgit
June 11, 2020

Sarawak News

Plantation owners worried about developments in Sabah

KUCHING: Sarawak Oil Palm Plantation Owners Association (Soppoa) has expressed concern on the recent development in Sabah, where plantations in six districts were shut down due to detection of Covid-19 cases in a few mills and estates for some time…

News Desk
April 7, 2020

Nation

Plantation, commodity sectors exempted from movement restriction order

KUALA LUMPUR: Workers in the plantation and commodities sector have been exempted from the Movement Control Order and are allowed to resume their work activities, said Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Datuk Dr Mohd Khairuddin Aman Razali. He said the…

Bernama
March 19, 2020

Sarawak News

SAR for missing 3-year-old enters day 8

SRI AMAN: A search and rescue (SAR) operation for a three-year-old Patrick Igih Mohd Taufik who was reported missing at Rapak Baru oil palm plantation here, has entered its eighth day today. According to the State Fire and Rescue Department…

Allan Jay
March 11, 2020