KUCHING: Tourists from several countries will join in the festivities of the first-ever joint harvest festival in Sabah and Sarawak.

The seven-day joint festival package for 32 tourists from Britain, Australia, South Korea and Russia starts with the Kaamatan Festival of the Kadazans in Kota Kinabalu today.

The Sarawak Tourism Board today announced that the Kuching Open Bridge Congress will be held at the Telang Usan hotel on May 16th and 17th 2009. The event which is expected to attract more than 50 bridge players to Kuching is the first of its kind in the city - it is to become an annual event.