Kuching News

Opposition in fulfilling their election promises as a strategy to recapture the eight seats it lost in the 2006 state polls. Party president Tan Sri Dr George Chan Hong Nam said there were many examples of the Opposition not making...

The meeting was chaired by Brunei Darussalam, headed by the ICT Working Group chair Pengiran Haji MD Zain, Director of Communications and Chief Executive of Authority for Info-Communications Technology Industry of Brunei Darussalam. (PNA) * Name:

The Sarawak Forestry Corporation (SFC) has introduced an orangutan adoption programme to raise funds and awareness of its conservation and rehabilitation work. Launching the programme at SFC’s annual dinner on Friday, Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud said Sarawak...

Sarawak is introducing a centralised sewerage system in Kuching to reduce pollution of the city's waterways from untreated wastewater. State Urban Development and Tourism Minister Datuk Michael Manyin said Package 1 of the system was currently under construction and would...

The Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam) wants an urgent review of the Sarawak state laws to guarantee all indigenous communities� their right to customary land. Suhakam commissioner Dr Mohammad Hirman Ritom Abdullah said the rights of the indigenous people...

Former Sarawak state secretary Datuk Amar Abang Yusof Puteh, 74, died of kidney failure at the Normah Specialist Centre at 5.20pm yesterday. Abang Yusof, who had served as Kelaka state assemblyman for one term (1987), is survived by his wife,...

Organic farming is still in its infancy in Sarawak with only one farm accredited under the Department of Agriculture�s Malay-sian Organic Scheme to date. The department�s Sarawak senior research officer Kadin Empari said three more farms were currently undergoing verification...

Leaders at all levels should help to spread the meaning of Malaysia Day, said Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak. The Prime Minister said this was important because not every Malaysian knew the meaning of Malaysia Day and what happened on...