Awang Tengah appointed as Sarawak’s third DCM


KUCHING: Datuk Amar Awang Tengah Ali Hasan has been appointed as Sarawak’s third deputy chief minister in a major Cabinet reshuffle that also involved the appointment of two new ministers and assistant ministers.

Chief Minister Datuk Amar Abang Johari Tun Openg said the new line-up would take effect today after a swearing-in ceremony before head of state Tun Abdul Taib Mahmud.

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