Student, motorcyclist killed in crash
KUCHING: A fatal car-motorcycle crash along Mile 24, Jalan Kuching-Serian on Saturday evening (July 22) claimed the lives of a secondary school student and a motorcyclist. The incident happened around 6.30 pm and involved a Proton Wira car, driven by a 54-year-old man with his 54-year-old wife and two children, aged eight and 13. The […]
Call to change lane into U-turn
Lo Khere Chiang (GPS-Batu Kitang) has urged the federal government to address the problem at Mile 15 roundabout in Kuching which is accident-prone area as soon as possible. He pointed out this was to prevent more people from being hurt or killed at the roundabout. “The roundabout was badly designed and constructed by the federal […]
Pujut Interchange temporary closure until June
MIRI: The Pujut Link Interchange of Pan Borneo Highway project here is expected to close until June this year to make way for road widening and construction zone works. Previously, the general public used the old single carriage way dual direction to commute but they can no longer do so as the road is now […]
Coastal highway U-Turn poses danger to users
MUKAH: The construction of a U-Turn at the KM7 Mukah-Oya highway supposed to facilitate traffic flow near the new Mukah Airport has led to somewhat dubious circumstances. New Sarawak Tribune observed that while the U-Turn has a significant purpose for being constructed at that section of the coastal highway, it lacked safety aspects that should […]
New U-turnings to ease 7th Mile traffic congestion
KUCHING: New U-turnings under the Pan Borneo Highway flyover at the 7th Mile traffic-light intersection will be made to ease traffic congestion. “I know the road congestion here is pretty bad. So a U-turn road will be constructed under the flyover from Serian to Kuching,” said Padawan Municipal Council (MPP) chairman Lo Khere Chiang. “Another […]
Hops, twists, turns and knots
Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong. – THEODORE ROOSEVELT, 26TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES Tumultuous is actually a comparatively mild word to describe the shenanigans that have been taking place in Malaysian politics over the last week […]
Show is not over yet!
Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable – the art of the next best. – Otto von Bismarck, German statesman who masterminded the unification of Germany My, oh, my, what a week it was! Malaysians were treated to a weeklong political circus — perhaps not the greatest political show on earth, nevertheless still […]
More Bersatu MPs may return to PH
PETALING JAYA: More Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (Bersatu) members of Parliament are expected to return to Pakatan Harapan (PH) after Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad was nominated as the coalition’s prime minister candidate. Amanah deputy president Datuk Seri Salahuddin Ayub said he did not rule out the possibility but it was up to the former Bersatu chairman and those who […]
‘PH is consistently inconsistent’
KUCHING: Sarawak United People’s Party (SUPP) Stakan branch chairman Sim Kiang Chiok wonders how many more U-turns and broken promises Sarawak Democratic Action Party (DAP) are going to make. He said that the latest broken promise was that after ruling for two years, Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad would step down for Parti Keadilan […]
Take politics out of education
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. – B. F. SKINNER, AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGIST, BEHAVIOURIST, AUTHOR, INVENTOR, AND SOCIAL PHILOSOPHER Education in Malaysia has been turned into a political football for quite some time now. On the surface, the policies come across as either due to incompetence by some buffoons […]
