Abdul Karim: More efforts to be made to improve financial management of Museum Department

August 2, 2017

KUCHING: More efforts will be made to improve the financial management of the Sarawak Museum Department.

Minister of Tourism, Arts, Culture, Youths and Sports Datuk Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah said although the Auditor General’s (AG) report was for 2016, he would seriously look into the matter even though he was not the minister in-charge then.

“Definitely, I’m not happy with the performance of Sarawak Museum Department (due to what was) rightly pointed out by the AG.

Pengurusan kewangan JMS perlu ditambah baik: Karim

August 02, 2017

KUCHING: Penambahbaikan dan pindaan perlu dilakukan ke atas sistem pengurusan kewangan Jabatan Muzium Sarawak (JMS) dengan meng-ambil kira elemen-elemen utama dinilai oleh Jabatan Audit Negara (JAN).

Menteri Pelancongan, Ke-senian, Kebudayaan, Belia dan Sukan Datuk Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah berkata langkah itu perlu bagi me-mastikan pencapaian peng-urusan kewangan JMS diperbaiki bermula tahun ini.

“Sudah tentu saya tidak gembira dengan pencapaian Jabatan Muzium Sarawak seperti dinyatakan oleh Ketua Audit Negara (KAN) Tan Sri Dr Madinah Mohamad dalam Laporan Ketua Audit Negara (LKAN) Siri 1, 2016.

Karim wants State muaythai boxers to give their best

August 1, 2017

Abdul Karim (fifth, left) in his office with the boxers, PMNS officials and coaching staff during the flag hand over ceremony yesterday.

KUCHING: Three Sarawakian male muaythai boxers will represent the country at the IFMA World Junior Championships starting this Thursday in Bangkok, Thailand.

They with Sarawak Muaythai Association (PMNS) officials and coaches met Tourism, Arts, Culture, Youth and Sports Minister Datuk Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah at his office yesterday for a flag handing over ceremony.

A proud Abdul Karim reminded the trio to do their best as they are not only representing Sarawak but Malaysia as well.

Why only one ringgit?

July 31, 2017

KUCHING: The federal Tourism and Culture Ministry must explain to Sarawak and Sabah why their share of the tourism tax collected from foreigners visiting Malaysia has been reduced to RM1 for every RM10 collected when originally the total collection was to be divided equally among Peninsular Malaysia, Sarawak and Sabah.

Tourism, Arts, Culture, Youth and Sports Minister Datuk Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah said he was taken aback by this sudden reduction.

“This (equal distribution among the three regions)was proposed by the federal Tourism and Culture Minister (Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz) himself and later by Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.

Galeri: A courtesy visit to Abdul Karim by organising committee of Borneo Cultural & Food Fest

July 29, 2017

Tourism,Arts, Culture, Youth and Sports, Datuk Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah  holds the Borneo Cultural & Food Festival (BCFF) 2017 logo while Organising chairman Harry Lee (seated left), CEO of Islamic Information Centre (SIC), Zabariah Matali (seated second left), Sarawak Chinese Association (SCA) president Ting Pang Soon (seated second right) and the organising committee members give their thumbs-up to the event.