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Friday, 18 Dec 2020 01:43 PM MYT
BY SULOK TAWIE
Sarawak artists Abot Gudang (left) and Sandra Trinata with their World Crafts Council Asia Pacific awards which they won during their recent 39th General Assembly hosted in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, December 18, 2020. ― Picture courtesy of Sarawak Crafts Council
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KUCHING, Dec 18 Tourism, Arts and Culture Minister Datuk Karim Rahman Hamzah said his ministry will come up with short-term programmes to speed up the recovery of the handicraft sector which has been hard hit by the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.
He said the programmes include online marketing clusters which will have a coordinator who possesses digital technology skills as a mentor to less technology-savvy producers using social media and e-commerce platform.