Lucky escape as senior citizen unhurt from pickup truck blaze on Pan Borneo Highway near Bintulu Posted on 22/11/2024 SIBU, Nov 22 — A 66-year-old man was lucky to escape after the pickup truck he was driving caught fire at Mile 28 of the Bintulu-Miri Pan Borneo Highway stretch today. The Sarawak Fire and Rescue Department (Bomba) said a team from the Bintulu fire station was assigned to the scene after receiving a distress call at around 8.30am. “Upon arrival, the team found that the fire had destroyed the entire vehicle,” Bomba said in a statement. Firefighters worked to extinguish the blaze using one hose line with water sourced from the fire truck. The fire was brought under control at 9.19am. Bomba has yet to establish the cause of the fire and value of damages. — The Borneo Post News
Lukaku keeps Napoli top of Serie A with Roma winner Posted on 25/11/2024 Napoli’s Romelu Lukaku slides in a low cross to score the winner against Roma at the Diego Armando Maradona stadium. (AP pic) MILAN: Romelu Lukaku ensured Napoli maintained their one-point lead at the top of Serie A with the only goal in Sunday’s 1-0 win over his old club Roma. Belgium… Read More
High Court to hear additional evidence, two new Indonesian witnesses in Paul Yong’s rape conviction appeal in January Posted on 26/11/2024 IPOH, Nov 26 — The High Court here has tentatively set four days in January to call two new witnesses to testify on the additional evidence submitted by former Perak executive councillor Paul Yong Choo Kiong against his conviction for raping his former Indonesian maid. Yong’s lawyer Salim Bashir said… Read More
Israeli strikes kill 47 people in eastern Lebanon, says official Posted on 22/11/2024 Israeli airstrikes hit the Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs of Beirut, sending up clouds of debris, in some of the most intense airstrikes yet. (AP pic) BEIRUT/JERUSALEM: Israeli strikes killed at least 47 people in eastern Lebanon on Thursday, a Lebanese official said, pressing the campaign against the Iran-backed Hezbollah group as… Read More