Sarawak government to help varsity students in buying textbooks and tools


Sarawak Premier Tan Sri Abang Johari Tun Openg (left) receiving a portrait from cartoonist Lat at the opening of Bank Negara's Financial LATeracy exhibition in Kuching. Looking on is Bank Negara deputy governor Datuk Marzunisham Omar. - ZULAZHAR SHEBLEE/The Star

KUCHING: The Sarawak government will assist Sarawakian students in tertiary institutions to purchase textbooks and other equipment, says Tan Sri Abang Johari Tun Openg.

The Premier said the assistance would be announced in the state budget to be tabled in the upcoming Sarawak legislative assembly meeting.

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