Abd Karim: Kuching Waterfront should be managed by single entity

February 22, 2019

Abdul Karim (third right) visits a booth which showcased ideas for the Kuching Art Mural together with (from right) Dr Sim, Abdul Wahap and Wee at the Chap Goh Mei festival that was held at the India Street Pedestrian Mall on Wednesday.

KUCHING: Minister of Tourism, Arts, Culture, Youth and Sports Datuk Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah feels that the whole stretch of the Kuching Waterfront should be managed by a single entity.

Currently, he said the Kuching Waterfront is jointly managed by Sarawak Economic Development Corporation (SEDC) and Kuching North City Commission (DBKU) “which does not make sense”.

“I feel that there should not be more than one entity to manage the Kuching Waterfront properly as it may affect the development and tourism plans in the area,” he suggested at the Chap Goh Mei festival at India Street Pedestrian Mall on Wednesday night.

Galeri: Paying last respect to the late Andrew

February 14, 2019

(From second right) Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Abang Johari Tun Openg and his wife Datin Patinggi Datuk Amar Juma’ani Tuanku Bujang, Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Amar Awang Tengah Ali Hasan, Minister of Tourism, Arts, Culture, Youth and Sports Datuk Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah and Local Government and Housing Minister Datuk Dr Sim Kui Hian pay their last respects to former deputy chairman of Sibu Municipal Council (SMC) the late Dato Andrew Wong Kee Yew. At right is Second Finance Minister Dato Sri Wong Soon Koh. -TheBorneoPost

Galeri: Kota Samarahan Municipal Council second anniversary dinner

November 13, 2018

Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Abang Johari Tun Openg with his wife Datin Patinggi Datuk Amar Juma’ani Tun Tuanku Bujang, Stakan assemblyman Dato Sri Mohammad Ali Mahmud (fourth left), Minos (fifth left), Minister of Local Government and Housing Datuk Dr Sim Kui Hian (sixth right), Minister of Tourism, Arts, Culture, Youth and Sports Datuk Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah and Muara Tuang assemblyman Datuk Idris Buang (third right) cutting the Kota Samarahan Municipal Council second anniversary cake on stage.

It is still proper to call Sarawak as a state - Karim

July 11, 2016

Abdul Karim (third left) in a group photo with See (fourth left), national PKR Women vice president Voon Shiak Ni (left), state PKR Women chief Nurhanim Hanna Mokhsen (second left) and other guests.

KUCHING: Assistant Minister of Housing Datuk Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah opined a call by the SUPP president Datuk Dr Sim Kui Hian for Sarawak to be referred as a region in Malaysia and not as a state as ‘very subjective.’

He  believed it was still proper to call Sarawak a state because it was a part of Malaysia.

“Sarawak can still be considered a state, but it is a state within a union … within a confederation. So, whether we should call ourselves just Sarawak or a state, to me that is minor,” he told reporters when met at his Hari Raya open house at his residence here yesterday.

“What is more important here is when we signed the (Malaysia) Agreement, there were certain rights that we agreed upon, and these are the rights that have diminished for the last 53 years. We are trying to get them back.”

Stating that the matter was quite sensitive, he opined it was now more important to focus on the rights of the state as Sarawak was one of the signatories to the Malaysia Agreement 1963.

“Unlike the federated and unfederated Malay states that are Peninsular Malaysia, they came in as signatory to the Malaysia Agreement 1963 as one entity. We (Sarawak) came in as another entity, Sabah came in as another, and Singapore, too.

“The way I see it, strictly from a legal aspect, it should be called a federation of states.”