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Police obtain order to extend remand of three suspects in murder of two British students

Posted: 13 Aug 2014 01:27 AM PDT

KUCHING: Police have obtained an order to extend the remand of three out of five suspects in the murder of two British medical students last week.

The order was issued by Magistrate Portia Tham Ong Leng, who also ordered the suspects, aged 19, 23 and 29, to be produced again before the court on Aug 20.

In the application, made under Section 117 of the Criminal Procedure Code, submitted by investigating officer, ASP Rejali Angong, stated that the police needed time to complete their investigation.

Newcastle University students Aidan Grunger, 22, and Neil Dalton, 23, were found dead on the street at Jalan Abell, Padungan here at about 4.15 am last Aug 6.

The three suspects were rounded up in separate places around the city here on the same day.

Police had also arrested two other suspects, aged 35 and 55, on Aug 7 and 8, respectively. — BERNAMA

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Registration for NS trainees from Aug 16 to 18

Posted: 12 Aug 2014 12:37 PM PDT

SIBU: Trainees in the third batch of the National Service 2014 Series 11 are asked to report for training from Aug 16 to 18.

This batch has 777 trainees for Junaco Park Camp and 776 for the Bumimas Camp.

The trainees are those born in 1996.

Their gathering point for their trip to their respective camps is Sibu Town Square Phase II.

Meanwhile, 108 trainees from Sibu and 50 from Sarikei will be sent to the Junaco Park Camp on Aug 16 while 120 trainees from Bintulu and 264 trainees from Peninsular Malaysia will be sent to the same camp on Aug 17.

On Aug 18, 120 trainees from Kapit and 115 from Peninsular Malaysia will be sent to the same camp.

Their training period ends on Nov 9.

Deputy Minister of Defence Datuk Abdul Rahim Bakri is expected to officiate at the start of the training on Aug 27 at 9.30am.

For enquiries, call 084-337977.

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Man assaulted before being robbed

Posted: 12 Aug 2014 12:36 PM PDT

KUCHING: A man suffered bruises to his head after he was bundled into a car and assaulted prior to being robbed early yesterday.

The 43-year-old man was riding a motorcycle back to Seng Goon Garden after work when two unidentified men in a car stopped him not far from his house around midnight.

The pair came out and accused him of stealing the bike he was riding before forcing him to get into their car and sit in the front passenger seat.

As the car sped off, one of the men seated directly behind him began to repeatedly beat him with a piece of wood before removing about RM200 from inside his wallet.

The robbers then stopped at the side of the road and forced him out before speeding away from the scene.

The victim managed to walk back to his house and sought help from his family to send him to the Sarawak General Hospital where he was treated for bruises to his head.

A police report of the incident has been lodged.

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Septuagenarian motorcyclist dies in crash

Posted: 12 Aug 2014 12:35 PM PDT

MIRI: A 70-year-old man died at the scene where the motorcycle he was riding was hit by a four-wheel drive (4WD) vehicle yesterday.

Taha Wahab from Tudan Phase 5 was on his way home after buying several kilograms of fish from Mile 1 when the accident occurred near Kampung Batu Satu in Kuala Baram around 10.30am.

"The victim was about to make a turn on his right into a small lane in the middle of the main road as it is a short cut to go to the opposite lane," said fishmonger Ahmad Tajuddin Abu, 37, who witnessed the accident.

He said the 4WD then rammed into the victim's motorcycle.

According to Ahmad the victim was thrown into the air before landing on top of the 4WD's bonnet.

The driver of the 4WD is believed to have only managed to stop the vehicle after a distance of 76 metres based on tyre marks on the road.

Taha suffered serious injuries to his head and several other parts of his body, while the 4WD's driver and elderly woman passenger escaped uninjured.

His widow and family members rushed to the scene after receiving calls from bystanders.

Most of the eyewitnesses, including Ahmad, called on the relevant authorities to monitor the area for speeding.

"We also want the authorities to put up a clear signboard or yellow lines here so that road users know that there is a small lane in the middle of this road and therefore reduce their speed," he said adding that many fishermen use the lane to move their boats from their village to the seashore across the road.

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Obtain accreditation, Mong tells growers

Posted: 12 Aug 2014 12:34 PM PDT

by Johnson K Saai, reporters@theborneopost.com. Posted on August 13, 2014, Wednesday

KUCHING: Growers in the state are encouraged to obtain proper accreditation such as SALM (Skim Amalan Ladang Baik) or MyGAP to ensure that good agricultural practices (GAP) are employed at their farms.

Assistant Agriculture Minister (Research and Marketing) Datuk Mong Dagang said this is to ensure supply of safe and quality produce.

"To meet this challenge, it is important to build up the capacity of growers and entrepreneurs to enable them to adopt appropriate production technology packages," he stressed.

He made this remark when representing Deputy Chief Minister and Minister of Modernisation of Agriculture Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Alfred Jabu at the opening of a one-day seminar on crop produce supply chain cum roundtable meeting for stakeholders of the local crop produce industry organised by the Agriculture Department's Agriculture Research Centre here yesterday.

On the handling and marketing of produce, Mong said in general smallholder farmers still do not practise proper handling procedures such as grading, packaging and chilled transportation and temporary storage of produce, which may result in substantial post-harvest losses.

"They mainly sell their produce through middlemen or at the wet market and some more progressive ones to local supermarkets.

"The latter requires more sophisticated arrangements. Hence, some sorts of contractual agreements or arrangements on supply quantity, quality, schedule and pricing have to be agreed upon by parties concerned," he noted.

He lamented that market information on crop produce also has not been easily available to reflect the prevailing supply and demand situations on the ground.

"Under such conditions, growers more often than not do not know what quantity to produce and good crop prices often lead to over production and subsequent price crashes and losses to growers," he pointed out.

On the other hand, he added, supermarkets have expressed their intention to sell more quality local produce but unfortunately are not able to find reliable suppliers or growers.

Thus, there appeared to be some 'mismatch' on the production and availability of local crop produce between supermarkets and growers, he said.

The seminar themed 'Farm to Table of Quality Crop Produces and Products' yesterday was organised by the Agriculture Research Centre.

The seminar cum roundtable meeting among others was to bring together relevant stakeholders and explore ways to cooperate and improve the management of local crop produce supply chain.

Besides that, it was also to provide a platform for stakeholders to meet, negotiate and work out business deals on win-win basis to make more local fresh crop produce and products available for consumer and industrial uses.

Altogether 144 participants from various parts of the state, including from as far as Sarikei, Sibu and Bintulu divisions, attended the seminar.

In conjunction with the occasion, various agricultural produce were displayed at the several exhibition boots.

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‘Have effective devt communication plan in support of SCORE’

Posted: 12 Aug 2014 12:33 PM PDT

by Eve Sonary Heng, reporters@theborneopost.com. Posted on August 13, 2014, Wednesday

KUCHING: Sarawak Development Institute (SDI) will have to come up with development communication in support of Sarawak Corridor of Renewable Energy (SCORE) for the economic and social transformation in the state.

The development communication (DevCom) plan should be able to create a critical mass for Sarawakians who are knowledgeable and supportive of SCORE.

DevCom is a planned social intervention, rooted on the dreams, the will and the participation of the people.

"We want our development officer to come with a DevCom plan in support of SCORE, the government's arrowhead programme meant to transform Sarawak into one of the wealthiest, if not the wealthiest state by 2030," said Chief Minister Tan Sri Datuk Amar Adenan Satem when launching the 'Reinforcing Development Communication for Economic and Social Transformation in Sarawak' workshop here yesterday.

"Only when the people see themselves as the subject and object of our development efforts will people be able to support us and become our partner wholeheartedly. And only then will a broad sector of our society serve as movers and advocates of our SCORE programme."

SDI chief executive officer Datu Aloysius J Dris, Associate Professor Maria Stella Tirol (department of development broadcasting and telecommunication, college of development communication) of University of Philippines Los Banos and Professor Dr Cleofe S Torres (college of development communication) of University of the Philippines Los Banos were among those present.

Maria Stella Tirol presented a talk on 'DevCom as a discipline and as an approach to sustainable development' while Cleofe talked on 'DevCom in Asia: some success stories'.

Adenan went on to say that its communication planning on SCORE was not the best because of sporadic information flow and a lack of people's engagement particularly at the grassroots level.

Part of the problem was a lack of trained development communication personnel, he said.

He said the government was aware that there were many remote areas which remain largely underdeveloped because of accessibility issue due to poor infrastructure, resulting in the lack of database on the areas in terms of the populations' characteristics, capacity and capability issues of their communities, agriculture capability of the land, employment opportunities available, and accessibility to basic facilities.

"These information and data are necessary to enable us to undertake any kind of development planning. SCORE provides a solution to this issue of underdevelopment but we need to have better and more strategic communication planning so that our communities on the ground can share our vision of the state's future," he said.

In regards to HEP dams, he said there seemed to be a huge gap between the government and the affected communities in terms of the information flow and coordination of efforts to meet the needs of the communities at the local level.

Inconsistencies in communication content, irregularity of information provided, lack of transparency, delays in responding to community's needs and poor preparation of the communities in facing impending changes were some of the issues and challenges arising from poor communication planning.

Adenan added that engaging communities and getting their active participation thus were two rather crucial elements in the development process which could be facilitated by DevCom.

He said the state was fortunate that SDI managed to communicate with FAO in Rome and the College of Development Communication, University of the Philippines Los Banos to seek their cooperation to conduct the DevCom training workshop.

"They have just completed a sourcebook on 'ComDev planning' in April and that Sarawak will be the first partner to make use of the book in communication planning.

The three-day workshop to end Aug 14 is held in collaboration with University of the Philippines Los Banos and FAO, and is sponsored by Ministry of Modernisation of Agriculture, State Planning Unit, Human Resource Management Unit, Sarawak Energy, SEDC Sarawak, Sarawak Land Custodial and Rehabilitation Authority (Salcra), Harwood and Land Custody and Development Authority (Pelita).

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