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James Alexander Ritchie
November 18, 2022

Epic story of Limbang’s brave policemen

Being brave meant that though you might be frightened, you would face the greatest danger if you knew it was the right thing to do. – Anne Holm, Danish journalist, and writer In the early hours of December 8, 1962, the rural shantytown of Limbang underwent an infamous insurrection which shook Colonial Sarawak. In the... Read More
Column, Opinion
October 28, 2022

SCO’s failed utopian dream

Everyone falls down. Getting up is how you learn to walk. – Waltz Disney, American animator, film producer Few people know that communism in Sarawak started as early as the 1950s in three major Kuching Chinese-language papers which they controlled. It was Malaysia’s best-kept secret until the Malayan Communist Party leader Ong Boon Hua alias... Read More
Column, Opinion
October 21, 2022

Running dogs and unsung heroes

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection. – Thomas Paine, English-American born political activist I have written numerous stories of natives at war but few people realise the role of a group of “unsung” Chinese heroes. For decades the urban society took peace for granted while a... Read More
Column, Opinion
October 16, 2022

Brave Imban – facing death fearlessly!

Is that what death would feel like? The nicest, warmest, heaviest never-ending nap? If that’s what it’s like, I wouldn’t mind. If that’s what dying is like, I wouldn’t mind that at all. The British Gurkhas soldiers have a motto that goes, “Better to die than be a coward!” Similarly, Brookes’ Sarawak Rangers war cry... Read More
Column, Opinion
October 7, 2022

Massacre of the innocents

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle. – Sun Tze, ancient military... Read More
Column, Opinion
September 30, 2022

Honouring a forgotten debt

As our beloved nation celebrates Malaysia Day on Sept 16, 59 years after the formation of Malaysia, we urge the federal and state governments to remember and recognise the selfless contributions of the Sarawak Border Scouts. – Dayak Chamber of Commerce and Industry secretary-general Libat Langub For years I have dreamt of writing a book... Read More
Column, Opinion
September 23, 2022

On the vanishing Lugat trail

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing. – R. D. Laing, Scottish psychiatrist In the past 40 years I have travelled the length and breadth of Sarawak and believe it had the potential to be a... Read More
Column, Opinion
June 17, 2022

An exciting cultural extravaganza

I believe that nothing should be taboo – no theory or prejudice should close one’s mind to a discovery. – Henry Moore, English artist Aristocrat “Semagat” Jacobus was not only mentor of the small “Memaloh” tribe, but was involved in recording its disappearing culture. Like high priest Onyang, Jacobus was descended from the leaders of... Read More
Column, Opinion
May 20, 2022

Kalimantan Escapade — Opening our borders

Part 3 I think – I do think that we have to have a secure border. We need to make sure that people are, in fact, documented. But that doesn’t mean that we threaten people’s lives. – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, American politician and activist Indonesia’s Kalimantan Barat (KALBAR) is a multi-cultural region blessed with rich natural... Read More
Column, Opinion
April 8, 2022

Reign of terror — In the beginning

Part 1 This success is … unparalleled. According to the military intelligence at that time … it saved … RM1.5 billion in operational expenditure. — Datuk Seri Alli Kawi, former deputy commissioner of police, Sarawak I have numerous stories of police heroes which remain buried in the pages of my 2011 book “Crimson Tide over... Read More
Column, Opinion
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