News about Sarawak

KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 1): Police in Miri have arrested a 24-year-old man for breaking a self-quarantine order three times at a hotel in the Sarawak city, reported The Star.

PUTRAJAYA (Nov 3): The Court of Appeal has maintained Nov 26 as the hearing date for Sarawak Report's editor Clare Rewcastle Brown and the publisher of her book's appeal against the High Court decision in allowing Terengganu's Sultanah Nur Zahirah's application of not testifying in court over her defamation suit against them on a book in relation to 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB).

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 31): Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin (pictured) today said that the Batu Sapi by-election and Sarawak’s 12th state election will have to be held despite the current Covid-19 pandemic — unless a state of emergency is declared.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 29): A two-year-old baby has been detected as Sarawak’s youngest Covid-19 case, the Borneo Post reported today.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 27): A ship with more than 100 people sank off Miri in Sarawak in the early hours today.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 16): Sarawak property developer and businessman Tan Sri Ting Pek Khiing (pictured) passed away earlier today, reported the Borneo Post.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 19): The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has detained two people, including a former senior officer of the Malaysian Armed Forces who holds a Datuk title, in connection with an investigation into false claims linked to a project worth about RM800 million to upgrade rural roads in Sarawak.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 15): Datuk Rizal Mansor today denied that the RM5 million cash from Jepak Holdings Sdn Bhd that was delivered to Seri Perdana, Putrajaya, was meant for him and not his ex-boss Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 8): A consultant testifying in Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor's (pictured) graft trial has denied that he was misled when asked by the latter's special aide to prepare a consultancy agreement for a solar hybrid project.

SIMANGGANG (Aug 31): The Sarawak government has been working closely with its federal counterpart to channel various forms of aid to those affected by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, which aptly reflects this year’s National Day theme, Malaysia Prihatin (Malaysia Cares).