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KUCHING: The Sarawak Housing and Real Estate Developers’ Association (Sheda) has launched its online Sheda Affordable Housing Survey for Sarawakians in a bid to reduce the growing gap in the Sarawak housing market which comprises of those who generally earn above RM3,000 but below the required amount to sustain a housing loan for a suitable house in today’s market. Sheda …

KUCHING: The RM310 million Bengoh reservoir dam has been ready for impoundment since March this year as all the families from the five affected villages – Kpg Rejoi, Kpg Pain, Kpg Sait, Kpg Semban and Kpg Bojong – have been resettled at the Bengoh Resettlement Scheme (BRS), says Bengoh assemblyman Datuk Dr Jerip Susil. Dr Jerip told thesundaypost here yesterday …

AEON Mall in East Malaysia will start construction works at at Jalan Tun Ahmad Zaidi Adruce, Kuching and open by Second Quarter 2017.

MIRI: The RM70 million-Miri Airport extension project is slightly behind schedule and thus is expected to be completed by end of this year instead of October. The project involves expanding the parking aprons and adding two more taxiways to accommodate 10 ATRs, four Twin Otters and five Boeing and Airbus 320s aircraft at any one time. Assistant Minister of Communications …

KUCHING: The Sarawak Housing and Real Estate Developers Association (Sheda) is happy that the Local Government and Community Development Ministry has agreed, in principle, that it would allow purchasers of completed housing units to apply for connection of utilities before the issuance of Occupation Permit (OP). Sheda president Joseph Wong Kee Liong, who led his delegation for a meeting with …

KUCHING: People from the low-income group now have greater chances of fulfilling their dreams to buy houses and live in decent homes with the official launch of Mutiara Housing Loan Scheme yesterday. The scheme, which was launched by Housing Minister Datuk Amar Abang Johari Tun Openg, is specifically established to cater for the financial need of this particular segment of …

KAPIT: The Kapit/Song/Kanowit Road will be completed by 2017 with the announcement of an RM87 million allocation for the construction of the ‘missing link’ of 9.6 kilometres between Nanga Temalat in Song and Nanga Ngemah in Kanowit by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak. He approved the fund when he officiated at the Gawai Ngiling Tikai ceremony to mark …

KUCHING: A seismotectonic map showing earthquake fault lines in Sarawak drawn up in 2006 by Minerals and Geoscience Department in Sabah shows the site of the proposed Baram Dam is in the close vicinity of two fault lines. This was disclosed by Alexander Yan the former director of Minerals and Geoscience department to The Borneo Post in Kota Kinabalu on …

LUNDU: Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Adenan Satem yesterday announced that a waterfront would be built in Sematan. Adenan, who is Tanjung Datu assemblyman, said as the town faces the sea, a good waterfront should be built not only for the locals but also as an attraction for visitors visiting the area. “Maybe, we will (build the waterfront) like …

KUCHING: Five bus companies – Bau Transport, Biaramas Express Bus, City Public Link Transport, Petra Jaya Transport and Sarawak Transport Company – have agreed to form a consortium to provide public transport in the city. The buses would come under the name MyBas, and Kuching is one of seven cities in the country picked for this pilot project that comes …