Swinburne researchers win accolades for university

KUCHING: Researchers from Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak Campus won the Best of Social Sciences and Humanities Award at the Innovation Technology Exposition 2022 (InTEX22). All in the team who presented their findings on June 15-16 at Pullman Hotel bagged three gold, seven bronze and one merit medals. Dr Yii Kwang Jing, Dr Maggie Tang […]

126-year-old sermon stick from whale shark’s fin found in Losong mosque

KUALA TERENGGANU: Those passing-by Losong Haji Mohd Mosque, which is on the outskirts of Kuala Terengganu, would not have thought that there is a 126-year-old “tongkat khutbah” (stick held by an imam when delivering sermons) made of whale shark’s bone inside the mosque. Head of the Art and Design Department, Faculty of Arts, Computers and […]

Unimas excels in mission to better understand Covid-19

KUCHING: The resemblance was striking. Walking into the laboratory of the Institute of Health and Community Medicine (IHCM) of Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (Unimas) was like moving from one scene to another of the popular American forensic crime drama ‘CSI: Crime Scene Investigation’. The ‘mood’ of the lab, with the immaculately placed microscopes, petri dishes and […]