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Woman suffers injuries while rushing to douse fire

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 11:38 AM PST

SIBU: A woman suffered injuries on her head after knocking it on an unspecified part of her wooden house at Abang Barieng Road here yesterday.

The injury required five stitches.

The woman, who is in her 50's, had spotted smoke coming from a storeroom located on the ground floor of the house around 2.30pm and was rushing down to douse it.

On the way, she knocked her head on a part of the house which was built on stilts.

Firemen arrived shortly after and doused the fire.

A relative staying nearby said he was at work when he was informed of the fire.

He rushed to the house and helped to salvage most of woman's belongings.

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Man charged with mischief for causing fire

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 11:37 AM PST

SARIKEI: A man has been charged with mischief under Section 435 of the Penal Code for causing a mattress at a hotel here to catch fire early last Monday.

Jalang Galau, 29, pleaded not guilty to the charge.

Magistrate's court registrar Mosidi Husseini fixed Feb 20 for the next mention of the case and allowed the accused to be released on RM5,000 bail in two local sureties, with RM1,500 to be deposited with the court.

According to the charge read by prosecuting officer Inspector Anbarasu Gobi, the accused was arrested following a report lodged by a worker at the hotel.

The worker had heard a commotion coming from a room rented by the accused and a female companion and found the mattress on fire.

Based on the police investigation, the fire was caused by Jalang's cigarette.

He is believed to have been drunk at the time of the incident.

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Child loses tip of middle finger in mishap

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 11:37 AM PST

KUCHING: A five-year-old lost the tip of his middle finger after getting it caught in the floor of an escalator at a mall in Kota Samarahan on Thursday night.

The boy was riding up the escalator with family members around 8pm when he was said to have poked his right finger into a section of the floor, resulting in it becoming wedged inside.

Security guards at the mall immediately responded to the situation by shutting down the escalator and helping the boy's parents to free his trapped finger.

By then, however, the tip of his finger was already severed and he was subsequently sent to the Sarawak General Hospital (SGH) for treatment.

In an unrelated incident, a man was admitted to SGH for head injuries after his car crashed into a tree at a roundabout in Stutong yesterday.

The 46-year-old victim was spotted by passing motorists around 3.30am sitting inside his damaged car and bleeding from a large gash on his head.

He was believed to have lost control of his car while negotiating the roundabout and struck a tree by the roadside.

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Chief engineer and skipper nabbed for selling ship’s diesel

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 11:37 AM PST

MIRI: The chief engineer and captain of a vessel, both Indonesians, have been arrested on Friday morning for allegedly selling off more than 10,000 litres of diesel amounting to more than RM20,000 to other vessels.

The duo was allegedly caught selling off the diesel on Jan 1.

They were arrested at Krokop's ship dockyard by the security on duty and were later handed over to police around 8am.

According to sources, one of the vessel's crew had told the security on the wrong-doing of the chief engineer and captain, which led to their arrest.

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Farewell visit

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 11:35 AM PST

Posted on January 11, 2014, Saturday

Outgoing Ministry of Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism Sarawak director Wan Ahmad Uzir Wan Sulaiman (left) going through a book with Chief Minister Pehin Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud when he visited the latter's office yesterday. The visit was to officially inform Taib of his transfer to Putrajaya, where he would take up the post of Implementation Coordination Unit director in the Prime Minister's Department this month.

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Kapitan: Up to bakeries to name prices, not association

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 11:34 AM PST

by Lim How Pim, reporters@theborneopost.com. Posted on January 11, 2014, Saturday

KUCHING: Kuching-Samarahan Bread and Cake Makers' Association hopes their members would not raise the price of their products.

In any case, the association has no power to stop them if they wanted to.

Its chairperson Kapitan Mary Wong said even though the association had earlier announced a possible price hike of between 10 and 15 per cent, the plan was aborted.

"We did go public about increasing prices by as much as 15 per cent, but right after the announcement, the Malaysia Competition Commission issued us a letter requiring us to explain why we should mark up the prices.

"We were sort of warned that the announcement to increase prices infringed Competition Act 2010. Hence, the association has done nothing, but to give free reins to members," she told The Borneo Post when asked in phone interview why a few bakeries here had increased prices by over 20 per cent recently.

Malaysia Competition Commission is an independent body established under the Competition Commission Act 2012 to enforce the legislation. Its main role is to protect the competitive process for the benefits of businesses, consumers and the economy.

Wong pointed out it was now entirely up to the members whether to review their prices for bread, buns, cookies and cakes. In any case, Wong opined it would not be too much if bakers increased by 20 sen for a loaf of milk bread following the government's decision to withdraw sugar subsidies and also hiked the price of RON95 fuel.

She said those end products that were made of imported ingredients would most likely see a higher increase in price.

"If a loaf of bread is now sold for RM2.80, which is 20 sen more than the previous price, I do not see any problem with this. Bakers who use ingredients imported from Peninsular Malaysia or outside the country may have to hike up more in order not to make a loss." Wong said if consumers were unhappy with the price hike, they could always lodge a complaint with the association, which has more than 100 members.

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