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Posted: 14 Aug 2014 12:24 PM PDT

Posted on August 15, 2014, Friday

A worker prepares to tow a saloon car out of a drain in front of the Sarawak Energy Berhad office building in Miri. The driver lost control of the car and skidded into the drain during rainy conditions yesterday around 8am. The car was heading to the city from Pujut 4. The driver was not injured in the incident.

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Motorcyclists crash in attempt to avoid pothole – BorneoPost Online <b>...</b>

Posted: 13 Aug 2014 12:44 PM PDT

KUCHING: A last-minute attempt to avoid a pothole landed three students of a technical institute in Matang in hospital after they crashed their motorcycles yesterday.

The victims, all aged 21, were heading to the institute to attend class when the incident happened around 8am near Sungai Cina.

The trio, riding their respective bikes in single file, apparently spotted a large pothole along the road at the very last moment and swerved to avoid hitting it.

The manoeuvre, however, caused each of them to lose control and crash on the road, leaving one with a broken leg and two others with scrapes.

All three were subsequently taken to Sarawak General Hospital (SGH) for treatment.

In another incident, a 31-year-old motorcyclist sustained cuts on his head after crashing at Jalan Muara Tuang early yesterday.

The victim was heading back to his house at Mile 10 Kuching-Serian Road around midnight after visiting a friend when he lost control of his machine on the wet road and crashed.

He managed to contact his friend who sent him to SGH for treatment.

Separately, two middle-aged men suffered head and chest injuries after the four-wheel drive (4WD) vehicle they were travelling in overturned down a slope at Jalan Diplomatik in Bako yesterday.

The victims, in their 40s and 50s, were heading towards Petra Jaya around 3.45pm when their 4WD struck the central road divider and crossed to the opposite lane before plunging several metres down a slope.

A team from the nearby Civil Defence Department headquarters was despatched to the scene to help extricate the trapped victims, who were then sent to a private hospital in Petra Jaya for treatment.

Members of the public who were at the scene said the driver was still conscious following the incident while the passenger appeared to be badly hurt and was lapsing in-and-out of consciousness.

Their immediate condition was not known.

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Kopitiam service for the dearly departed - The Borneo Post Online

Posted: 12 Aug 2014 12:16 PM PDT

by Raymond Tan, reporters@theborneopost.com. Posted on August 13, 2014, Wednesday

SIBU: Tea or coffee?

This is what customers are asked in the hospitality industry, like in an aeroplane or hotel restaurant where customers are pampered.

And this is how Er Par Hwang Temple treated its 'VIP guests' during the Hungry Ghost Festival, serving hungry ghosts kopi-O and teh-O in coffee-shop cups and saucers.

The offering of the Malaysian favourite beverages was placed on a long table in front of the temple together with steamed rice, roast duck and chicken, and even organic pork that cost slightly more.

The temple also served Chinese white rice wine to toast departed souls.

Temple chairman Yeo Kheng Teck said: "Although the Hungry Ghost Festival ceremony is thousands of years old, we are hosting it Malaysian style because our ancestors had chosen to settle here and fallen in love with this land."

He said apart from serving food the Malaysian Kopitiam style, the temple also burnt a paper junk.

Yeo noted this was a culture developed by the Chinese in South East Asia where descendants burn boats for their ancestors to symbolically let the early settlers make a homeward bound journey to their birthplace.

For more than a decade, the paper junk Er Par Hwang Temple is the biggest burnt item in Sarawak for the Hungry Ghost Festival.

Yeo said: "The boat measures 43 feet long, 30 feet high and 12 feet wide. On the two sails were calligraphic writings to bring blessings to the people."

The chairman said the boat burning was to raise funds to build their new temple. They burnt the paper junk at 9.30pm.

In the temple's Hungry Ghost ceremony, leaders offered prayers apart from food and drink.

Hundreds took part in the offering ceremony conducted in the Temple at Deshon Road.

Other offerings brought by worshippers were vegetarian food ranging from bean products to green vegetables and fruits.

The temple gave out rice to the worshippers as a sign of goodwill after the ceremony.

Among the visitors were two tourists from Holand Eline Veerbeek and Thys Grievink brought in by local tour agent Ling How Kang.

The two were fascinated to find ancient Chinese cultural practices in Sarawak.

They said this was the first time they had seen the oriental customs practised. They will cherish their experience as well as the friendship of the people in Sarawak.

The two youths are travelling through Sarawak for the first time.

"We have touched and fallen in love with the tropical rain forests," they said.

The two have been to Batang Ai Longhouse Resort.

After Sibu, they will proceed to Mukah and also visit Bakun.

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