Intensifying marine research efforts in Sarawak

Wong (fourth left) exchanging signed MoU documents with Mienczakowski, witnessed by Oswald (second left) and Kueh (third right). Photo on the right shows a map on the boundary of the Miri-Sibuti Coral Reefs National Park.

KUCHING: Marine research efforts in the state will be stepped up as project sites for Rimba (Research for Intensified Management of Bio-rich Areas) Sarawak research platform will be extended to include Miri-Sibuti Coral Reefs National Park (MSCRNP).
A memorandum of understanding (MoU) to enable this was signed between Sarawak Forestry Corporation (SFC) and Curtin University Malaysia (Curtin) recently.

MP suggests croc-watching as new tourism draw

NSJA president Andy Jong (third left) hands over an NSJA Installation Night invitation to Ahmad Lai.

MIRI: Sibuti could offer river cruises to watch crocodiles as a new tourism product, said Sibuti Member of Parliament Ahmad Lai Bujang.
He said this could be another attraction for visitors to the area besides the Tusan, Peliau and Tanjung Bungai beaches, Niah Cave and Lambir Waterfall.

Bekenu’s last shophouses face imminent demolition

The last row of wooden shophouses.

THE history, written on every plank of the wooden shophouses in Bekenu, will be buried under a rubble of dismantled building materials when the last row of these structures, built more than 80 years ago, is demolished after the Chinese New Year (2017).
Bekenu town will then take on a completely different complexion – modern perhaps but with a big chunk of its heritage effaced and gone forever.
Lamented K Suring, a regular visitor: “It’s sad knowing businesses run by the Chinese in these wooden shophouse are going to disappear from the social and economic landscape of Bekenu in less than two months.
“There is no sense of community in modern malls. I love the soul of old wooden shophouses where the legacies of our ancestors are felt in every nook and cranny.”