KUCHING: The Sarawak state government is studying the formulation of an insurance scheme to provide welfare assistance for senior citizens, says Datuk Patinggi Abang Johari Tun Openg.
KUCHING, Oct 6 The Sarawak government is studying the best method to assist senior citizens, as the level of human health has improved compared with a few decades ago, said Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Abang Johari Openg. He said that Malaysia is now heading towards being an ageing country,.
KUCHING, Sept 17 ― Incentives and awards for two Sarawak Paralympic athletes, Bonnie Bunyau Gustin and Jong Yee Khie, who won gold and silver medals respectively in power lifting at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, will be announced after the State Cabinet meeting at the end of this month. Youth.
SIBU: The number of homeless individuals in Sarawak has increased since the Covid-19 pandemic began with 30 more registered by the authorities this week.
Issue of statelessness still unresolved Pix for illustration purposes.
SARAWAK has prided itself as a state that has kept away illegal immigrants, but in its own backyard it finds itself in a bind with a host of problems related to its own people.
Many indigenous people remain stateless, especially the Penan who have been waiting for decades to be accorded Malaysian citizenship and to be recognised as citizens of Malaysia.
Long delays and excessive bureaucracy on the part of the National Registration Department (NRD) have left many applicants in the lurch and their citizenship woes run into three generations.
The issue has been made difficult by their nomadic culture, and compounded by rural poverty and illiteracy as most Penans cannot read nor write in Bahasa Malaysia. Almost all of them cannot afford the luxury of travel.