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Fined for not social distancing

SIBU: A woman was fined RM2,000 in default two weeks’ imprisonment by a Magistrates’ Court (Aug 8) for failing to carry out social distancing in a COVID-19 infected local area at a music cafe here, in September last year. Magistrate Punitha Sivaraji took note of 24-year-old Nurul Syahfina Yusup’s mitigation and her guilty plea. “The […]

Fly by Buduk Ubung aka Gunung Mulu

It was a good day to fly onboard the Twin Otter on the Miri to Bario sector on Thursday 18, November 2021. The flight was less than half full, a paradoxical truth knowing that usually there are many looking for vacant seats on the limited numbers available on the small aircraft. This time around, the […]

Expensive dining

KUCHING: A group of ten diners found sharing a table in an eatery at Jalan Song, here were issued RM1,500 compound each for breaching Covid-19 standard operating procedures (SOPs). The owner of the premises on the other hand was issued a compound of RM10,000, bringing the total compounds to RM25,000. Kuching police chief ACP Ashmon […]

Keeping kindies safe for kids

KUCHING: Kindergartens operating during the current conditional movement control order (CMCO) are adhering strictly to the standard operating procedures (SOPs) to keep the children under their care safe and sound. Although the children have to observe the strict SOPs, school is still fun for them, said the Association of Kindergarten Operators (AKO) chairman Jason Kong. […]

MCC to compound SOP violators

KUCHING: Miri City Council (MCC) has received a directive from the authority that its authorised enforcement personnel are to issue compound notice of RM1,500 upon any person found committing an offence against the Covid-19 standard operating procedures (SOPs). This directive will take effect immediately and it covers areas under MCC’s jurisdiction. “The direction has come […]

Blind masseurs face bleak future due to MCO

MIRI: The massage and reflexology business has not been spared from the effects of the movement control order (MCO) since the Covid-19 pandemic wrought havoc to the nation’s economy. Since the MCO was declared in Malaysia in March last year, it has deeply affected those in the business of touch as they could not operate […]

Do your part to comply with SOPs, social distancing

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KUCHING: The Covid-19 pandemic continues to have its grip and cause detrimental impacts on Malaysia with continuous increasing number of daily cases nationwide.  Despite the various initiatives, advocacy efforts, and regulations implemented by the government to keep cases at bay, the nation’s cumulative number of Covid-19 cases reported was 183,801 with 678 deaths recorded as […]

Failure to observe physical distancing to blame for rise in Covid-19 cases

KUALA LUMPUR: Tomorrow marks a year since the Covid-19 pandemic hit the country with the first case involving three Chinese nationals who entered Malaysia via Johor from Singapore on Jan 20, 2020. During the first wave, majority of the Covid-19 cases were imported and did not involve Malaysians, while the infection during the second wave […]

Kindies can hold graduation ceremonies with sops

KUCHING : All kindergartens in Sarawak are allowed to organise graduation ceremonies provided the movement control order (MCO) standard operating procedures (SOPs) are adhered to, said Welfare Community Wellbeing, Women, Family and Childhood Development Minister Datuk Seri Fatimah Abdullah.   In announcing this, Fatimah stressed that the graduation ceremony would be subjected to 50 percent […]

General public are also frontliners

SADONG JAYA: Apart from the members of the police, army, health and related agencies, the general public are also the frontliners in curbing the spread of Covid-19. Simunjan assemblyman Awla Dris said the role of the general public is no less important like the other frontliners as they must adopt and comply with the standard […]