UNCERTAIN FUTURE - A GROUP OF PENANS FROM SUNGAI URUN, BELAGA DISTRICT, IN CENTRAL SARAWAK WAITING FOR TRANSPORT TO SEND THEM AND THEIR GOODS TO BINTULU TOWN, SOME 200KMS AWAY FROM THEIR SETTLEMENTS. MP FOR THE CONSTITUENCY OF ULU REJANG, BILLY ABIT JOO, HAVE ASKED THE HEALTH AUTHORITIES TO VISIT THESE PENANS MORE OFTEN TO LOOK INTO THEIR HEALTH SITUATION. 14 PENANS DIED IN THE LAST MONTH DUE TO A MEASLES OUTBREAK, HIGHLIGHTING THE LACK OF IMMUNISATION IN THE INTERIOR REGIONS OF SARAWAK.
MIRI: There is a need to drastically improve rural air services in remote Sarawak, says Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party (SPDP) deputy president Datuk Nelson Balang Rining.
He said while the Federal Government, through the Ministry of Transport, had renewed its contract with MASWings for another seven years, it must relook the present ground situation regarding airstrips and flight sche- dules.
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