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Malaysia ICT Week
2004 is set to become the nation’s biggest Information & Communications
Technology (ICT) event of the year. Themed "ICT For All", the event
was held at MINES, Kuala Lumpur, from 2 to 5 September 2004; and encompassed
five major events - ICT Excellence Award 2004, MSC Business Summitt, PUSPANITA
ICT Seminar, MSC International Adviory Panel Meeting, and the widely known local
ICT and multimedia industry expositions called the MSC, ACM and National E-Commerce
Expos..
This year’s Borneo Cultural Festival
is the fourth to be held in Sibu and it has proven to be a crowd-puller, attracting
both local and foreign spectators to the Town Square every night throughout
the week in July. An estimated 42,000 people attended the festival in 2003.
This year’s festival is co-organised by the Sibu Municipal Council and the Resident
Office. The festival highlights the best in the cultures and traditions of the
Chinese and the various ethnic groups like the Ibans, Melanaus, Bidayuhs, Malays,
and the Orang Ulu.
Sidang Jawatankuasa Kerja/Kelompok
Kerja (JKK/KK) SOSEK MALINDO kali ini merupakan sidang yang bermakna sekali
yang mana ianya telah mencapai usia 20 tahun.
People must be multi-skilled to be
productive and competitive in today’s world. We have to be able to produce
anything nicer, faster and cheaper than anyone. So when demand is high, we have
more profit; when demand is low, we have less profit but still profit,"
said YB Tan Sri Datuk Amar Dr. George Chan Hong Nam, Deputy Chief Minister,
Minister of Modernization of Agriculture and Minister of Industrial Development,
Sarawak, at the recent launching of the Sarawak Machinery & Technology Exhibition
(S-MATEX 2004). Held for the third time, the annual exhibition provides a golden
opportunity for local
businesses to view up close and personal the latest manufacturing machinery
and technology in the market.
A healthy nation makes a progressive
nation. When its people are physically and mentally healthy, a nation can prosper
with much ease. In the recent announcement of 2005 budget, an allocation of
RM7.9 was budgeted to upgrade and improve our health care services throughout
the nation including the
introduction of several new incentives for health care providers..
"Ample
opportunities exist in this country for technical and vocational training to
develop its full potential through an established foundation of skills training
to meet the needs of industries.".
Pesuruhjaya Polis Sarawak Dato Talib
Jamal yakin Polis Diraja Malaysia (PDRM) Kontinjen Sarawak akan dapat memberi
perkhidmatan yang lebih baik di kawasan utara negeri ini khusunya di Bintulu
dengan wujudnya pangkalan baru Polis Marin yang terletak di Kampung Jepak.
Pihak pentadbir terutamanya pihak
Residen disaran menjadikan kampung yang berjaya sebagai model atau "benchmark"
untuk memajukan kampung atau rumah panjang selaras dengan perancangan pembangunan
di bahagian masing-masing.
Semakin berkembang
ekonomi negeri dan negara, semakin meningkat kadar pengangkutan kargo. Kerana
itu amat penting untuk kita mempunyai sistem pengangkutan kargo yang efisien
bagi memenuhi keperluan yang meningkat itu.
Hari
Peladang Penternak dan Nelayan (HPPN) Sarawak kali ke-20 yang diadakan di Sarikei
pada 28 hingga 31 Ogos lalu disambut meriah oleh masyarakat setempat, khususnya
golongan peladang, penternak dan nelayan negeri ini.
Hari
Peladang Penternak dan Nelayan (HPPN) Sarawak kali ke-20 yang diadakan di Sarikei
pada 28 hingga 31 Ogos lalu disambut meriah oleh masyarakat setempat, khususnya
golongan peladang, penternak dan nelayan negeri ini.
Sebut
sahaja ikan buntal, pasti ramai akan mengaitkannya dengan sejenis ikan yang
dianggap beracun, namun pada hakikatnya sekiranya disediakan dengan cara yang
betul ia adalah selamat untuk dimakan.
Industri
akuakultur seperti penternakan ikan dan udang berkembang dengan pesat dan telah
terbukti mampu memberi pulangan hasil yang begitu memberangsangkan kepada pengusahanya.
Tanaman nangka berkelompok di Ulu Sungai Empila, Samarahan
dirancangkan pada tahun 2000 dan dilaksanakan pada tahun 2001- 2003. Projek
ini
melibatkan 24 orang peserta di kawasan seluas 24 hektar
"Smart Consumers, Ethical Sellers: Malaysia’s Foundation for Prosperity”
remains the theme for this year’s state level Malaysia Consumers’
Day 2004 celebration. Hosted by Sibu in August 2004, the programme was organized
to enhance consumers’ knowledge on the quality and safety of products and
services provided by businesses and sellers in the country. Besides increasing
the discerning powers of consumers, the programme also aims to help with the
nation’s economic growth such that everyone could share in the country’s
successes.
To keep fit and stay focus in work means, to stay healthy
in both physical and mental. This was highlighted at the launching of a health
management programme dubbed, “Fit2Work”, by the Sarawak Forestry Corporation,
early September this year.
For two days each year, the stretch of
river in front of the Kuching Waterfrot is turned into a magnificent floating
water carnival.
Tons of rubbish and household wastes are
thrown out of our houses daily, and yes the rubbish men are there to collect
them and take them away from our sights…to landfills and designated dumpsites
at the city’s periphery.
Driving to Kapit from Sibu may soon be
a reality once the road linking both towns comes into full completion.
In its effort to create awareness among
the society and encourage them to be involved in prevention, rehabilitation
as well as the development of special individual with mental or physical disabilities,
Bau district has officially opened its first and only community rehabilitation
centre or Pusat Pemulihan Dalam Komuniti (PDK).
Teachers have a huge responsibility to provide both quality
academic education and upright moral values to their students if we want the
students to become good and responsible citizens
State Legislative Assembly Speaker and
Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Sarawak Branch president, Dato Sri Haji
Mohamad Asfia Awang Nassar, led the Sarawak delegation to the 50th Commonwealth
Parliamentary Association Annual Conference in Quebec City and Toronto, Canada,
from 1–9 September.
Women are hard working, smart and caring and these qualities
must be given due recognition by the “higher ups’ for women to move
forward. This was the main message of YABhg Datuk Amar Puan Sri Dr. Hajjah
Laila Taib’s opening speech at the launch of the State Level Women’s
Day 2004 celebration held in early September this year. The theme for this
year’s celebration was “Nur: Memupuk Kemakmuran Ekonomi.”
Government officers must always find ways towards continuous
improvement to enhance the effectiveness in their service delivery.
The government will expand the use of
information and communications technology (ICT) as one of the means to streamline
the delivery system,” stated the Prime Minister, YAB Dato’ Seri Abdullah
bin Hj Ahmad Badawi, during his Budget 2005 speech at the Dewan Rakyat on 10
September 2004. The Prime Minister then revealed four main strategies, which
Budget 2005 will focus on and where ICT could act as a strengthening factor,
to increase the nation’s resilience in facing challenges arising from the
present uncertainties and turbulence in the world economy:
Sebuah pasukan bomba khas akan ditubuhkan di Bangunan Sultan
Iskandar tidak lama lagi, kata Setiausaha Persekutuan Sarawak, Dato’
Haji Isa bin Kassim di sini, hari ini.
Pejabat Persekutuan di Bahagian Limbang
telah berjaya membolot dua anugerah Persekutuan Sarawak bagi tahun 2004.
Majlis Penutupan Perayaan Bulan Kemerdekaan Peringkat
Kebangsaan yang ke-47 di Tebingan Sungai Kuching pada malam 16 September lalu
disifatkan sebagai yang paling meriah pernah diadakan.
Kerajaan berazam untuk menyediakan liputan
sepenuhnya kemudahan bekalan air, elektrik, telefon serta hubungan jalan ke
kawasan luar bandar.
Setelah lebih dua tahun bergelar Bahagian, masyarakat di Bahagian Mukah kini
telah banyak menikmati pelbagai projek dan program pembangunan. Antara yang
telah siap ialah Masjid Setia Raja, Dewan Suarah Mukah, Perpustakaan Awam dan
Kompleks Kerajaan Negeri (Kompleks Pehin Sri Setia Raja)
Malaysia berhadapan fenomena ganjil yang jarang ditemui di negara
lain apabila jumlah wanita jauh mengatasi lelaki dalam mendapatkan pendidikan
peringkat menengah serta tinggi dan ini dianggap oleh Pertubuhan Bangsa-Bangsa
Bersatu (PBB) sebagai kemunculan masalah sosial.
Suruhanjaya Perkhidmatan Awam (SPA) menerima 350,000
permohonan bagi pelbagai jawatan di sektor awam sepanjang tahun lalu dan hanya
12,509 mampu diambil.
Government doctors with good service records may be offered
an extension to their service upon retirement beginning October this year.
Kerajaan akan melaksanakan sistem penarafan terhadap universiti-universiti
awam mengikut bidang atau fakulti pengkhususan, yang dilihat sebagai langkah
awal ke arah pengwujudan konsep satu fakulti-satu universiti, kata Menteri
Pengajian Tinggi Datuk Dr Shafie Mohamed Salleh.
Polis Diraja Malaysia (PDRM) kini membuka jawatan konstabel
polis kepada graduan di peringkat diploma dan ijazah, satu peluang yang dilihat
dapat mengatasi masalah pengganguran di kalangan graduan, kata Pengarah Pengurusannya,
Datuk Kamarudin Md Ali.
Jabatan Pertahanan Awam (JPA3) akan menubuhkan lebih banyak
pertubuhan kadetnya di sekolah dan Institusi Pengajian Tinggi Swasta (IPTS)
untuk menjadi tenaga pelapis di dalam pertubuhan sukarela itu.
Unit Pemodenan Tadbiran dan Perancangan Pengurusan Malaysia
(MAMPU) telah dilantik sebagai Urusetia kepada Pasukan Petugas Birokrasi kata
etua Pengarahnya, Datin Paduka Nazariah Mohd Khalid.
Kementerian Hal Ehwal Dalam Negeri (KDN) telah dan bakal mewujudkan
Mini KDN di kawasan ibu negeri dan daerah di negara ini dalam usaha mempertingkatkan
mutu perkhidmatan agensi kerajaan di bawah kementerian berkenaan.
Unit Pemodenan Tadbiran dan Perancangan Pengurusan Malaysia
(MAMPU) bercadang mengembangkan penggunaan program perisian myILMU yang dibangunkannya,
supaya ia juga dapat digunakan oleh agensi-agensi kerajaan lain, bagi memudahkan
perkongsian maklumat dan data oleh kakitangan di sesebuah agensi.
Syarat kelayakan untuk menjadi anggota bomba akan dinaikkan
dari Penilaian Menengah Rendah (PMR) ke peringkat Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia
(SPM) tidak lama lagi, bagi meningkatkan taraf profesion pasukan beruniform
itu.
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