News about Sarawak

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 5): Maybank chief cashier Azimah Aziz told the High Court today that Jepak Holdings Sdn Bhd managing director Saidi Abang Samsudin withdrew a total of RM6.

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 5): A dedicated office was set up in the Prime Minister's Department solely for the affairs of Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor during the nine years that her husband, Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak, was premier.

Below is the opening statement of senior deputy public prosecutor Datuk Seri Gopal Sri Ram in Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor's graft trial concerning a solar energy project for schools in rural Sarawak worth RM1.

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 4): Two steel associations are objecting to the proposed Wenan steel manufacturing project in Bintulu, Sarawak, saying it will further increase the oversupply that is afflicting the industry.

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 4): Datuk Seri Gopal Sri Ram, the lead prosecutor in Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor’s multi-million ringgit graft trial, has dismissed her lawyer’s claim that his client was suffering from “life-threatening” ailments as an “overdose of wealth and publicity”.

PETALING JAYA (Feb 1): GCH Retail (M) Sdn Bhd, which operates Giant, Cold Storage, Mercato and Jason’s branded hypermarkets and supermarkets, will exit Sabah and Sarawak within the next couple of months as part of the reorganisation of its operations, The Edge Malaysia reported today.

PUTRAJAYA (Jan 31): China’s ambassador to Malaysia Bai Tian has called on Sabah and Sarawak to review the decision to ban all flights from his country, the centre of the novel coronavirus epidemic.

KUCHING (Jan 22): Hydrogen-powered buses in Sarawak will be rolled out for public use starting tomorrow said Chief Minister Abang Johari Openg.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 21): Residential property in outskirt markets should be on the radar of property buyers and investors given the significant growth in their property transaction value and volume in recent times, said Rahim & Co International Sdn Bhd director of research Sulaiman Saheh.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 20): Sarawak Report editor Claire Rewcastle-Brown has filed an appeal against the High Court decision last month to allow an application by Terengganu's Sultanah Nur Zahirah not to testify in her defamation suit against Rewcastle-Brown and the publisher on her book about 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB).