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Sudden crowd surge at narrow 4m-wide-downward-alley blamed for deadliest stampede

SEOUL: A sudden surge of Halloween crowds instantly packing a narrow 4m-wide downhill alley in Seoul’s Itaewon district, resulted in the deadliest stampede in South Korea, witnesses and authorities said Today (Oct 30). With its hip nightlife and chic restaurants, Itaewon, home to expat communities in central Seoul, is by far the most popular spot […]

New Covid cases surge past 20,000

KUALA LUMPUR: New Covid-19 cases in Malaysia increased to 20,780 today from 19,991 yesterday, said Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah. Dr Noor Hisham, in a Twitter post, said this brings the cumulative figure for positive cases in the country to 1,320,547. Selangor again topped the daily case list with 6,921 infections, followed […]

New cases in Sarawak surge to 836, two deaths

KUCHING: Sarawak saw a surge in new positive Covid-19 cases today (Tuesday) — 836 cases compared to 589 yesterday (Aug 9). The Sarawak Disaster Management Committee (SDMC), in a statement today, said with that, the state’s case tally was now 82,753. It added the state also recorded two new deaths, raising its Covid-19 death toll […]

Average of three Covid deaths daily in state

KUCHING: The average daily death toll involving Covid-19 patients in Sarawak has increased three-folds in three months with three deaths reported every day this month from only one a day in March. According to Sarawak Acting Health Director Dr Rosemawati Ariffin, a total of 29 deaths were reported in March and the number increased to […]

88 pct surge in domestic violence cases

KUCHING: There was an 88 per cent surge in domestic violence cases reported in Sarawak from January to April this year compared to the same corresponding period last year. Minister of Welfare, Community Wellbeing, Women, Family and Childhood Development Datuk Seri Fatimah Abdullah said the cases increased by 145 cases or 88 per cent to […]