Looking for the missing and vanished!
It’s Good Friday and a time for reflection about how we live in a world where death is always at your doorstep. In the case of Christians, Good Friday is…
Author Archives: James Alexander Ritchie
Remembering James Wong Kim Min: Malaysia’s Grand Old Man of Politics
One of Sarawak’s iconic leaders is the late Datuk Amar James Wong Kim Min, a timber tycoon who pioneered the founding of Malaysia. Born in Limbang on August 2, 1922…
Honouring Song Kheng Hai’s legacy
One of Malaysia’s oldest rugby clubs celebrated its 60th anniversary in style at the Riverside Majestic Hotel Kuching last week. Kuching Rugby Football Club (KRFC), which was founded by the…
Kelabits celebrate 74 years of peace
Brave Kelabit highlanders celebrated Sarawak’s 74th year of freedom after the Second World War with a solemn ceremony at Bario last Monday March 25. To commemorate the occasion 100 Kelabits…
From rhino horns to penis pins
It still boggles the mind as to man’s propensity to kill wantonly for the sake of profit, sport, self-esteem and personal glory. I remember the old days when I would…
Cutting the nose to spite the face
It’s interesting that a former Sarawak assemblyman who has jumped ship, is now trying to find fault with his countrymen and political fraternity. Not too long ago Larry Sng was an…
From Kelantan to Borneo Highlands
Sixty years is a long time, but I believe in the philosophy that it’s better late that never. So despite the physical distance between the East and West, I finally…
Exploring Pontianak — City of Ghosts
If you visit Pontianak in West Kalimantan you must secure the services of a guide who knows the city like the back of his hand. But a qualified guide may…
Want to be an international ‘rat traveller’?
All too often we see domesticated animals – cats and dogs and their offspring – abandoned by their owners at car parks, eating places, and even kittens in boxes by…
A confluence of adventure writers
It’s not often that you meet a modern-day American journalist exploring in Borneo, given its former reputation as being a land of the head hunters. So it was a pleasant…