News about Sarawak

PETALING JAYA (July 6): The International Tropical Timber Organisation’s (ITTO) proposed Upper Baram Forest Areas, also known as Baram Peace Park will receive funding support of US$200,000 (RM830,680) from the Swiss Canton of Basel-Stadt (City of Basel).

KUALA LUMPUR (June 21): Senior lawyer Rosli Dahlan (pictured) has lodged a police report denying a UK-based portal's claim about his purported relationship with the judiciary, especially Chief Justice Tun Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat.

KUALA LUMPUR (May 18): Sarawak Consolidated Industries Bhd's wholly-owned subsidiary SCIB Properties Sdn Bhd has secured a RM120 million contract to build high-rise residential units within Sering district in Kota Bharu, Kelantan under the PR1MA Corp Malaysia affordable homes scheme.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 20): New Covid-19 cases in the country rose to 2,341 today from 2,195 yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 16): Malaysia’s new Covid-19 cases jumped to 2,551, from 2,148 yesterday, with Sarawak once again accounting for the most cases at 960.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 14): Sarawak-based Sarawak Consolidated Industries Bhd (SCIB) is acquiring a loss-making construction firm in Seri Kembangan, Selangor for RM4.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 29): Former Federal Court Judge Datuk Seri Gopal Sri Ram and former attorney general Tan Sri Tommy Thomas' law firm will represent Sarawak Report editor Clare Rewcastle-Brown and two others in an appeal hearing related to the defamation suit filed against the defendants by the Sultanah of Terengganu, Sultanah Nur Zahirah.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 19): IOI Corp Bhd said today it had relinquished its interest over 5,000 hectares of native land to resolve long-standing land disputes in Sarawak.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 18): The Ministry of Health reported 1,213 new Covid-19 infections today, with three more deaths, raising cumulative coronavirus infections in the country to 328,466, with total deaths now at 1,223.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 18): Oil palm plantation company IOI Corp Bhd is reported to have agreed to return 5,000ha of native customary rights (NCR) land to villagers in Tinjar, Sarawak under a resolution, which resulted from more than two years of engagement by both parties involved in the disputed land after the provisional lease was issued by the state government in 1996.