A face to face meeting of the School Board of Management members for SJKC and independence school from Kuching, Bintulu and Sibu was held at Deputy Chief minister, Dato’ Sri Dr. Sim Kui Hian office on Thursday. Dr. Sim said although SJKC operational cost which included salary and utilities is funded by the Ministry of Education Malaysia, the costing of new classrooms or relocation of schools are fully through private initiatives by the school board. He said Chief Minister, Datuk Patinggi Abang Johari started giving assistance for the infrastructure ofRead More

Sarawak needs to consolidate votes and win all 31 seats in Parliament to keep Sarawak strong and formidable, said Dato’ Sim Kheng Chiok. Speaking at the Sarawak United peoples’ party (SUPP) Stakan Branch Annual General Meeting cum 2021 Anniversary Celebrations, Sim said in the last general election, Sarawak won 19 seats and with one defection was left with 18. He pointed out that Malaya is now consolidating and finding new alliances and, we in Sarawak must make sure we have 31 seats to count on because it will strengthen ourRead More

Sarawak United Peoples’ Party (SUPP) will work towards capturing seven parliamentary seats for Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS) in the parliamentary election after the big win for them in the just concluded state election. SUPP secretary-general Datuk Sebastian Ting emphasised that GPS component parties including SUPP will continue to keep the momentum going and aim high to deliver all 31 parliamentary seats in Sarawak in the coming 15th general election (GE15). SUPP has seven seats, Bandar Kuching, Stampin, Serian, Sarikei, Sibu, Lanang and Miri and in the last Parliament election, theRead More

With Chinese New year approaching, Deputy Chief Minister, Dato’ Sri Dr. Sim Kui Hian went on his normal task of writing out Chinese new year cards to wish the sender a happy new year. Dr. Sim said while welcoming in the new year of the Tiger, he said he signed 5,000 Chinese new year greeting cards this year, a family tradition which was started by his late father, Tan Sri Datuk Amar Sim Kheng Hong. He added that with virant Omicron in our midst, he urged everyone to celebrate theRead More

Temenggong Tan Joo Phoi (3rd from right)hands over anti-Covid equipment, fogging machines, temperature sensors, sanitizers and facemasks to committee members of the Blessed Sacrament Church, BDC Kuching yesterday morning. Tan said the items were sponsored by both Datuk Kiung Choi Hin and Jacky Chai.

Despite being 16 years as state assemblyman for Sentosa, Wilfred Yap urged the Opposition to change their style of dealing with issues. Speaking to the press after viewing the problems of traffic jams at the Mile 7, Yap who is the Sentosa State Assemblyman blasted at DAP chairman Sarawak, Chong Chieng Jen for failing to tackle the issues facing Sentosa people correctly. Traffic jams, he said, is one of the issues faced by the public daily but instead of handling the issue correctly, he said DAP only knows how toRead More

Padawan Municipal Council (MPP) chairman Lo Khere Chiang said one of the measures to tackle traffic jams at Mile 7 is to increase the green light traffic timing as long as possible from Serian towards Kuching from 6 am to 9 am to 140 seconds from the normal 85 seconds. Lo, who was with Wilfred Yap, State assemblyman for Sentosa this morning to oversee the traffic situation at Sentosa said during the evening the timing for 5 pm to 7.30 pm from Kuching to Serian was adjusted to 120 secondsRead More

Sarawak State Secretary, Jaul Samion officially handed the the chairmanship of Sarawak Disaster Management Committee (SDMC) back to Deputy Chief Minister (2) , Douglas Uggah Embas. Advisor to SDMC, Dato Sri Dr Sim Kui Hian thanked Jaul and the SDMC team for doing an excellent job since taking over on November 3 due to the state election. Although handing SDMC tasks is thankless but critical for Sarawakians’ lives and livelihood especially with the ongoing COVID19 and floods. Dr. Sim said they are now preparing to counter the Omicron surge andRead More

Deputy Chief Minister, Dato Sri Dr Sim Kui Hian said despite the year end holidays, he is grateful that Drainage Irrigation department (DID) continued to work throughout to ensure that upgrading of drainages are done immediately. He said the handout of two projects for two areas were done at mid of December last year. Both the projects costing RM300, 000 each were for upgrading of Taman Sri Emas and Taman Stapok, Lorong 2, Batu Kawa. The projects will start on 22nd December to July this year. Dr. Sim said dueRead More

Flash flood Human factor contributes to most of the blockage in drains and rivers which is why there were serious flash floods in the city nowadays. Sarawak United Peoples’ Party (SUPP) chairwoman, Kho Teck Wan said she herself has given to the ground to study the situation and when Kuching City South council staff opened up the drain covers, it was mostly due to the rubbish and debries caused by excessive dumping of rubbish. Thus, she pointed out that for those who litter, they themselves have to pay for theRead More