PRS: Conduct perimeter survey around blocks of longhouses to expedite the survey process on NCR land

By Adele James

KUCHING, July 16, 2017 - Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS) said it wants perimeter survey on native customary rights (NCR) lands to be conducted around blocks of longhouses instead of from longhouse to longhouse as is the practice, its president Tan Sri Dr James Masing said today.

PBDSB: We hope legal team's mission to London will dig out reasons why Sarawak agreed to form Malaysia

KUCHING, July 15, 2017 - Parti Bansa Dayak Sarawak Baru (PBDS) has expressed the hope that the legal team's mission to London will dig out the reasons why Sarawak agreed to form the Federation of Malaysia with Malaya, Sabah and Singapore in 1963.

Cut allowances of ministers, not allowances of trainee teachers, says Abdul Aziz Isa

By Abdul Aziz Isa

I would like to express my deepest frustration at the latest news that was reported by The Star Online.

The online portal news quoted Education Deputy Minister Datuk Chong Sin Won as saying that his ministry will stop giving allowances for teachers undergoing training.

Bario students taught to be reporters under 1M Sarawak junior journalists programme

BARIO, July 14, 2017-  The school-going children of Bario are, like all children, curious and hungry for knowledge.

Uggah should expedite amendments to land code before more Dayaks losing their customary rights land

By Nicholas Bawin

This week, the indigenous people of Sarawak have lost at least seven cases in the Court of Appeal on the issue of their native customary rights to land based on the concept of pemakai menoa and pulau galau.