KUCHING: Sarawak’s Damai Golf and Country Club (DGCC) which was designed by worldfamous professional golfer Arnold Palmer is set to become the location of Borneo’s famous golf showdown today. The only golf course in Malaysia designed by Palmer, it borders the foothills of Mount Santubong and plays along the beaches,
It’s a dog’s life, as the Sarawak Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SSPCA) staff will testify. It’s bad enough trying to beat the traffic to get to the shelter premises in 7th Mile, Kota Sentosa, Kuching each morning on time, and then be greeted by 600 hungry,
They speak Iban and local Malay just like the native speakers; their Iban sometimes better than those of city Ibans. They even scold or reprimand their children in Iban and local Malay. These are among the attributes that make the Saratok Chinese a special breed. My memory of encountering them
I started my career as a crime reporter and have always enjoyed the company of policemen. Thanks to my father who was a renowned crime buster, I was more interested in chasing crime stories and criminals rather than burning the midnight oil. I joined the Straits Times in July 1972
When I was a young man, I grew up as a godless person — my mother Lily was a clairvoyant of sorts, and was always experiencing supernatural visitations at our home or wherever she went. Of Welsh-Malay heritage, her unique ability to sense spirits affected most of us, particularly my
On May 22, Malaysia lost one of its most beloved kings, Sultan Ahmad Shah of Pahang, who passed away at the age of 88. It was a sad moment because he was one of the few leaders who truly had the people’s interests at heart. In fact, the Pahang royal
Sarawak is a land of many interesting characters, some of whose stories should be told to enable future generations to know what life was like as an era gone by. One of the personalities is Stewart Ngau Ding, born into a family of Kayan aristocrats just before the Japanese invasion.
I was recently at the Sarawak General Hospital (SGH) anti-rabies unit where I made an interesting discovery – I managed to trace a long-lost schoolmate to the 7th Mile Sentosa Hospital. While waiting to be jabbed, I chatted with a nurse about her experience and she told me she served
At the turn of the 1800s thousands of rhinoceros roamed the forests especially in the remote highlands of South East Asia. Belonging to the Sumatrenis species, the two-horned Asian rhinoceros were mainly confined to Borneo, Sumatra and Malaya. Consider the fact that it was a Sumatran rhinoceros who led a
I celebrated my 69th birthday two days ago with a sumptuous meal, broke a tooth and swallowed it. My 32nd birthday was somewhat more dramatic — I came face to face with my first crocodile victim and learnt about a legendary man-eater called “Bujang Senang” or “Jolly Bachelor”. Named after Sungai Senang,
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