The 60-year-old paper then announced their decision to stop operation.
25th February 2006: Borneo Post (Sarawak) reported:
A new Sarawak daily newspaper, Eastern Times is set to be launched next month.
Sources told Bernama that the Internal Security Ministry had favorably considered the application and they are confident of getting the publishing permit by mid-March.
So, Sarawak Tribune had been baptised and converted to Eastern Times. They will have new editors but the rest of the employees will be from ...???
Yesterday, Sarawak Tribune organised a Gala Night at HarbourView Hotel in Kuching. I don't know what they are celebrating ... most likely it is about the Baptism and a "Born-Again Child".
On 11th February, Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi visited Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud. The Prime Minister, who arrived at the Kuching International Airport at 10.45am, went straight to Taib’s residence in Demak Jaya and hugged Taib as soon as he got out of the car. "Assalamulaikum. I’m happy to see you, very happy to see you," a smiling Abdullah told Taib. Abdullah was accompanied by the late Datuk Seri Endon Mahmud’s younger sister, Rahmah, and her husband. He spent about four hours with Taib, Laila and their youngest daughter, Hanifah.
"This is a private visit to see how Tan Sri (Taib) is doing after his operation," Abdullah said. Taib told reporters: "It is very kind of him to visit me. I’m touched."
I am touched too! It works! Eastern Times was born!
Sources told Bernama that the Internal Security Ministry had favorably considered the application and they are confident of getting the publishing permit by mid-March.
So, Sarawak Tribune had been baptised and converted to Eastern Times. They will have new editors but the rest of the employees will be from ...???
Yesterday, Sarawak Tribune organised a Gala Night at HarbourView Hotel in Kuching. I don't know what they are celebrating ... most likely it is about the Baptism and a "Born-Again Child".
On 11th February, Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi visited Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud. The Prime Minister, who arrived at the Kuching International Airport at 10.45am, went straight to Taib’s residence in Demak Jaya and hugged Taib as soon as he got out of the car. "Assalamulaikum. I’m happy to see you, very happy to see you," a smiling Abdullah told Taib. Abdullah was accompanied by the late Datuk Seri Endon Mahmud’s younger sister, Rahmah, and her husband. He spent about four hours with Taib, Laila and their youngest daughter, Hanifah.
"This is a private visit to see how Tan Sri (Taib) is doing after his operation," Abdullah said. Taib told reporters: "It is very kind of him to visit me. I’m touched."
I am touched too! It works! Eastern Times was born!
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