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Anwar wants Malaysia protected from divisive racial elements

KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim wants Malaysia to be protected from divisive racial elements. In his message on Facebook and Twitter tonight in conjunction with the Maal Hijrah 1445 celebration, Anwar said peace and stability must be the main goals to ensure the people’s welfare is protected. He said any attempt to […]

Bumis in Chinese schools fosters harmony early

SARATOK: Non-Chinese parents sending their children to Chinese National Type Schools (SJKC) will foster racial harmony from an early age. Kalaka assemblyman Mohamad Duri said the composition of bumiputera children in most SJKCs in rural Sarawak was thus higher. He said religious education, especially Islam, at SJKCs was also not an issue, reflecting a high […]

Sarawakians must maintain racial harmony

BINTULU: The effort to maintain the harmony of a country that has a multi-racial society is seen as not an easy matter or can be taken lightly. Therefore, all levels of society, regardless of whether it is at the level of national, state, or even small children, need to play their respective roles in maintaining […]

Need to preserve religious, racial harmony

KUCHING: Religious and racial harmony must be preserved to maintain continuous peace in Sarawak Tupong assemblyman, Fazzrudin Abdul Rahman has urged everyone to not spread racial sentiments and to use them as political models. “It is extremely dangerous; therefore, we need to ensure unity is preserved in Sarawak. “We should preserve it, we should work […]

National principles should still stand for something

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible. – ABRAHAM LINCOLN, US 16TH PRESIDENT The National Principles oath was something that I recited every single week with hundreds if not thousands of others pupils nationwide during my schooling days. It is pertinent, given the current situation in the country today that we reflect on the sacred […]

MP calls on chamber to empower rural folk

BINTULU: The Sarawak Chamber of Bumiputera Entrepreneurs (DUBS) branch here has been urged to focus on programmes in villages and longhouses and not just in urban areas. Bintulu MP Datuk Sri Tiong King Sing said this could help empower and improve their living standards to some extent, especially people in villages and longhouses who have […]

Tiong calls for community-government smart partnership

SIBU: Racial harmony and mutual respect are among the unique hallmarks of Sarawak. The Prime Minister’s Special Envoy to China, Datuk Seri Tiong King Sing said this has given Chinese culture room to flourish and the people to pass it on to their descendants. “Because of this, the Sarawak Premier appreciates the efforts of the […]

DCM: Maintain racial and religious harmony

KUCHING: Churches and various houses of worship play an important role in maintaining religious and racial harmony. Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Amar Douglas Uggah Embas said if harmony was not maintained, development and progress in Sarawak would be impeded. He said this before presenting grants from the Unit For Other Religions (Unifor) to two churches […]