Miri, Malaysia

MIRI: Transport woes and panic buying have led to a sugar shortage for the second time in one month in Lawas, the northernmost district of Sarawak, affecting about 40,000 people.

KUCHING: The Sarawak United People's Party has identified some 10 Youth members with leadership qualities to be groomed in its succession plan.

KUCHING: The Sarawak Housing and Urban Development Ministry hope to overcome traffic congestion in the state's major towns within the next four years.

Bruneians are taking advantage of the current school holidays to travel across the border to visit neighbouring towns such as Kota Kinabalu, Limbang and Miri.

MIRI: Hydro-electric dam projects and biofuel-plantation projects that uproot tribal folks from their ancestral homes must be de-listed from their ''green energy'' tags and classified as ''people-destructive and eco-unfriendly'' projects, said the latest report from Survival International, a global organisation involved in protecting tribal people.

MIRI: The Sarawak Cabinet has ordered an internal investigations into claims made by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission that up to 60 percent of Government allocations for vital infrastructure projects in this state between 2002 and 2008 had been misappropriated by certain quarters responsible for handling these projects.

MIRI: Employees of oil-giant Sarawak Shell are seeking Government help to stop an impending large-scale retrenchment exercise to be carried out by the oil and gas producer throughout this state.

Malaysia recorded a total of 17,378,040 tourist arrivals during the first nine months of 2009, indicating a sign of continuous growth of tourists to the country.

By Hamdan Ismail The writer took part in an Outreach Programme organised recently in Baram, Sarawak, by the Education Ministry BARAM - The happy faces of the Penan children lining up near the jetty at Sekolah Kebangsaan Long Lamei provided a welcome relief after a 10 hour journey from Miri.

MIRI: Borneo island can become a magnet for globetrotters and adventure seekers if the three governments, namely Malaysia, Brunei and Indonesia, give it the tagline 'Borneo Corridor' during their tourism promotions abroad.

This article is about a Bruneian woman who fell victim of smash gang in Miri. Every move you make is being watched by "Spotters" . Unknown to innocent Bruneian shoppers in border towns such as Miri, they keep watch.

Two tonnes of subsidised Super Tempatan 15 rice is sold in two days at a supermarket here, which indicates the high demand for the commodity.

A 325km stretch of the Miri-Kota Kinabalu road passing through Brunei Darussalam will be upgraded in phases at a cost of RM513 million under the 10th Malaysia Plan , Works Minister Datuk Shaziman Abu Mansor said here Monday.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Hoary but true. Perseverance in what you do is the sure way to success and happiness, insists Henry Law Ing Hua, 58, whose dogged pursuit of his dream of an agro-tourism resort has made him 'the luckiest man in the world'. Law was just eight when he was trained to follow in his father's footsteps in ...

MIRI: The saga surrounding the sexual abuse of Penan girls and women by timber workers in logging concession areas in northern Sarawak has reached a dead end.

The state government has identified 43 houses of worship which are built illegally on government land, the State Legislative Assembly was told Thursday.

MIRI: The British Government's ban on a Malaysian palm oil advertisement because of native land disputes and alleged victimisation of the Penans in Sarawak by logging and palm oil giants 'is unfair'. Deputy International Trade and Industry Minister Datuk Jacob Sagan said the federal and state authorities had put in great effort to not only protect ...

MIRI: A stand-off between a group of more than 500 Kenyah minority natives and an oil-palm giant over a land-dispute in Long Koyan settlement in the Belaga district in central Sarawak has reached a boiling point.

Glenealy Plantations Bhd is optimistic it will do better in the current year ending June 30 2010 thanks to higher crude palm oil production and stable CPO prices.

BELAGA: Natives at the Bakun Dam area near here are still finding it difficult to find jobs despite the opening up of more than 50,000ha of oil palm estates.