Puan Sri Laila Taib, Sarawak Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud’s wife who died yesterday from cancer, was buried at the Demak Jaya Muslim cemetary in Jalan Bako today. Her remains were lowered into the ground at 1pm next to the grave of her mother-in-law Hamidah Yakub, who died on Jan 13, 2006. The [...]
Ismail Mohd Hanis, 47 is Bintulu Division new Resident succeeding Dr Razali Abon who will be promoted as Human Resources and Quality director in the Chief Minister’s Department. Prior to his current appointment, Ismail who is hailed from Kuching was the Acting Resident of Sibu, which he served for more than two years. Met by [...]
A total of 1,500 native customary rights land-owners in Simunjan, in the Samarahan division, yesterday committed their land, totalling more than 9,600ha, to be developed into an oil palm plantation. This will be done in a joint venture with the state land development agency, Pelita Holdings Sdn Bhd, and plantation company, DD Plantations Sdn Bhd. [...]
Bernama reports: Puan Sri Laila Taib, wife of Sarawak Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud, succumbed to cancer at their residence in Demak Jaya here today. She died at 3.45pm. Laila, 68, is survived by her husband, four children, including Deputy Tourism Minister Datuk Seri Sulaiman Abdul Rahman, and 15 grandchildren. Taib’s press secretary [...]
BREAKING NEWS: Sarawak Chief Minister Taib Mahmud’s wife Laila Taib passed away today (around 3.45pm) at the chief minister official residence in Demak Jaya. She was reported to be suffering from terminal cancer. The “Sarawak First Couple” recently celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary and started their courtship in 1959. At that time Taib was a [...]
Bintulu based and Sarawak first aviation college Gulf Golden Flying Academy (GGIFA) awarded 48 students their wings at a graduation ceremony held at Bintulu Development Authority (BDA) Auditorium yesterday. In a speech read by Sarawak Housing Minister Datuk Amar Abang Johari Tun Openg, said he was optimistic that owner and management of the college would [...]
Baloi waterfall? If you never heard of it, you are not alone. In fact not many knew of it existence. I came to know about the waterfall after chanced upon this info on BDA website, last month. Even then there is no mentioned of its whereabouts on the site. So yesterday, following rather sketchy idea [...]
The swine flu outbreak is more worrying than bird flu because it is spread much more readily between humans, an infectious diseases expert said yesterday. Australian National University epidemiology specialist Prof Paul Kelly said swine flu had a lower mortality rate than bird flu but warned this was a mixed blessing because it would help [...]
An engineer from Semenanjung recently relocated to Bintulu. Unlike most expatriates who often described Bintulu in a favorable manner, this peninsula expat without mincing his words literally said it is literally such a suck place. Ouch! Hope Hj. Mohidin BDA General Manger read this post. Let’s quote him in verbatim. 1. Bintulu’s cinema costs me [...]
The sixth by-election since March 8 general election has been set. The Election Commission (EC) announced that May 23 will be the nominations day and May 31 as the polling day. The state seat in Penang fell vacant following the resignation of its assemblyman Mohammad Fairus Khairuddin, 33, on April 16 citing that it was [...]
