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Borneo Post
16-06-2025
- Sport
- Borneo Post
Inter-Professional Games from July to Oct to add four new sports
RISM golfers with Cheu (third left). KUCHING (June 16): More than 500 athletes from 11 professional bodies are expected to participate in the 10th Inter-Professional Games (IPG) to be held from July to October. The number of sports for the bi-annual games has been increased from five to nine with pickleball, volleyball, basketball and e-sports as the new sports set to join futsal, golf, darts, tenpin bowling and badminton. The darts competition will kick off the IPG on July 12 followed by tenpin bowling on July 20, pickleball on Aug 2, futsal on Aug 9, golf on Aug 17, badminton at on Sept 20-21 and ending with basketball in Oct with the date to be announced. Participating bodies include Malaysian Institute of Accountants (Sarawak Regional Office), Advocates Association of Sarawak (Kuching Branch), Institut Kimia Malaysia, Institution of Engineers Malaysia (Sarawak Branch), Royal Institution of Surveyors Malaysia (Sarawak Branch), Malaysian Medical Association (Sarawak Branch), Malaysian Institute of Planners (Sarawak Chapter), Pertubuhan Akitek Malaysia (Sarawak Chapter), Persatuan Farmasi Sarawak, Sarawak Institute of Agricultural Scientists and Sarawak Veterinary Association. The main objectives of IPG are to strengthen camaraderie between members of the professional bodies and to foster a healthy lifestyle among participants. IBG is hosted by UPC which was set up in Oct 1982 to provide a platform for the exchange of views and to foster closer rapport among the various professionals in Sarawak. Meanwhile, Royal Institution of Surveyors Malaysia (RISM) Sarawak branch are gunning for a fifth straight win in the golf competition after emerging champions in 2009, 2011, 2019 and 2023. RISM golf captain John Cheu said they are confident of defending their title. 'We are not doing well in other games so golf is a important game for us to stay relevant in the IPC Games. 'RISM will be organising the golf competition with more than 80 members expected to join while other professional bodies will organise/co-organise one event each,' he added. 10th Inter-Professional Games
South China Morning Post
22-04-2025
- Politics
- South China Morning Post
UN experts to assess Hong Kong's rescue team for accreditation next year
UN experts will assess Hong Kong's disaster rescue team next year as part of its bid to attain international accreditation to recognise its abilities, with the squad commander saying he is confident about the group's chances of passing the evaluation. Advertisement Cheu Yu-kok, commander of the team that was deployed to earthquake-stricken Myanmar last month, said on Tuesday that the group had already completed up to four drills and gathered advice from mainland Chinese counterparts to prepare for the assessment. 'Our progress has been good so far, we are also confident that we can pass the evaluation to become an accredited international search and rescue team next year,' Cheu said. The group applied for an accreditation as a medium-sized rescue team with the International Search and Rescue Advisory Group in November 2023, after the department led a 49-strong team to conduct a nine-day rescue operation in Turkey's earthquake. The advisory group is a United Nations-endorsed body that coordinates global rescue missions and develops search and rescue standards. Its accreditations are split into 'light', 'medium' and 'heavy' teams, with varying manpower and capability requirements. Advertisement A medium team is able to sustain 24-hour operations at a site for up to seven days and can perform searches with dogs, rigging and lifting. The team is also able to cut structural steel.
