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2023 State Budget passed

The Sarawak Legislative Assembly (DUN) yesterday (Dec 1) unanimously passed the Supply (2023) Bill, 2022 or the 2023 State Budget. The 2023 Surplus Budget, with an estimated total revenue of RM11.035 billion and an ordinary expenditure of RM10.797 billion, was tabled by Premier and Minister of Finance and New Economy Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Abang […]

Rubber Industry Board Bill passed by DUN

KUCHING: The Sarawak Rubber Industry Board (SARIB) will be established with the unanimous passing of the Sarawak Rubber Industry Board Bill, 2022 during the State Legislative Assembly (DUN) sitting today. The Bill, tabled by Modernisation of Agriculture and Regional Development Minister Datuk Seri Dr Stephen Rundi Utom, was passed after the third reading. A total […]

Bill to introduce ‘Premier’, ‘Deputy Minister’ passed with two-thirds majority

KUCHING: The Constitution of the State of Sarawak (Amendment) Bill, 2022 has been passed with a two-thirds majority in the august House today. State Legislative Assembly (DUN) Speaker Tan Sri Datuk Amar Mohamad Asfia Awang Nassar said that 67 state elected representatives (ADUNs) supported the Bill, while six opposed. The six were from the opposition. […]

2021 Budget passed via bloc voting

BY CLEMENT ERIK WONG, NATASHA JEE & MARGARET RINGGIT KUCHING: Finally, after long debates and opposition going against the national budget, the 2021 Budget or 2021 Supply Bill presented by the Perikaitan Nasional (PN) government was passed after its third and final reading via bloc voting in Parliament today. The RM322.54 billion budget, tabled by […]

PN’s first national budget passed

KUALA LUMPUR: The first national budget under the Perikatan Nasional (PN) government was passed at the Dewan Rakyat today after it received support of the majority the MPs through bloc voting. The 2021 budget or the Supply Bill, tabled for the third reading by Minister of Finance Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Tengku Abdul Aziz, was […]

Bill passed to define ‘resident’, lower eligible age to be YBs

THE Sarawak State Assembly (DUN) today passed a Bill to amend Article 16 of the State Constitution to lower the minimum age required for a person to become an elected representative from 21 to 18 years old. The Constitution of the State of Sarawak (Amendment) Bill, 2020, which was tabled by Tourism, Arts and Culture […]

Bills passed without debate

KUCHING: The State Legislative Assembly yesterday unanimously passed two Supplementary Supply Bills involving a total of RM681,491,777 for expenditures that were not covered in the 2020 State Budget. The Bills, tabled by state Deputy Chief Minister and Second Finance Minister Datuk Amar Douglas Uggah Embas, were the Supplementary Supply (2019) Bill 2020 involving an amount […]

Dark clouds have passed on for good

If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living. – Gail Sheehy, American author, journalist and lecturer It was 22 months that few Malaysians want repeated. Ever! In those 22 months, projects, some of them critical to the economic wellbeing of states, were either cancelled or suspended indefinitely or […]