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Serian MP to probe dormitory conditions amid parental outcry

TEBEDU: Serian MP Datuk Seri Richard Riot Jaem is scheduled to visit a secondary school on Friday (March 15) to investigate reported poor conditions within the school dormitory. According to him, the school’s principal has provided an explanation regarding the issue. “The pictures were taken surreptitiously from the store. Tomorrow I will visit the school,” […]

Goose-eating python caught

KUCHING: A seven-foot-long python had a tasty breakfast, eating a goose inside a goose coop on Wednesday (Jan 10). The reptile’s sighting was made around 8.30am in the vicinity of SMK Agama 2, Jalan FAC here. Fuelled by concerns over the reptile’s impact on the school staff and dormitory students’ safety, the Civil Defence Force […]

11 bullies plead guilty

KUCHING: Eleven senior students of a boarding school here, who changed their pleas from ‘not guilty’ to ‘guilty’, will know of their fates on Dec 17. The Magistrate’s Court has set the date to hear their social reports. Magistrate Sharifah Fatimah Azura Wan Ali ordered  all the accused, aged between 15 and 17, to be […]

School’s dorm damaged in fire

SIBU: A double-storey dormitory block in Citizen Middle School (Sekolah Menengah Citizen) caught fire early Friday morning (Oct 23). The Fire and Rescue Department (Bomba) operations centre received an emergency call around 7.40am on the incident. A team of firemen from the Sibu central fire and rescue station here was deployed to the fire scene […]

Rep hands aid to boys, teachers

KAPIT:  Bukit Goram assemblyman Jefferson Jamit Unyat visited SK Ulu Yong, Kapit to present aid to 10 boys and two teachers who lost their personal belongings during a fire recently. The fire razed a block of boys’ dormitory and a semi-detached teacher’ quarters built adjacent to one another on August 12 around 11.30pm. This was […]

SK Ulu Yong under devt office radar

KAPIT: Director of Sarawak Development Office Datuk Hasnul Mohamed paid a working visit to SK Ulu Yong over the weekend to attend the briefing of the recent fire that destroyed one block of boy’s hostel and one unit of semi-detached teacher’s quarters built adjacent to one another. He also handed over the RM5,000 to the […]

Blaze destroys school dormitory

BINTULU: An early morning blaze destroyed a double storey dormitory that housed 12 male pupils of Sekolah Kebangsaan (SK) Sebauh, Bintulu on Wednesday (Aug 5). Luckily an adjacent dormitory which accommodated 12 female pupils was saved in the incident. Eight firemen from Bintulu fire station arrived at the scene which located at about 41km from […]