Kota Kinabalu has never failed to excite me – it is a melting pot where thousands of illegal immigrants have fitted in well with the local inhabitants. Hemmed in by the Crocker Ranger, KK as the city is known, is the linchpin to a myriad of adventure sites such as
In the old days the border village of Ba’Kelalan with its friendly people, temperate climate and green valleys was touted as the “Shangri-La” of Sarawak. But in recent times it has been reduced to a “ghost town” because of circumstances that led to the authorities abandoning this small Lun Bawang
It’s the Easter season and interestingly the government is going on a “doggy cleansing” operation that is expected to last till 2021. So far more than 15,000 strays have been killed in the last 20 months – no thanks to the rabies scare. But what triggered this “knee jerk” reaction
In 1964 an air force pilot landed his Twin Pioneer aircraft at the remote village of Long Semadoh in Northern Lawas at the height of the Malaysia-Indonesia Confrontation. Trained in New Zealand, pilot officer Soon Lian Cheng’s mission was to transport British and Malaysian troops to the border outposts of
It had been a long day for Lance Corporal Mering Imang who was involved in a major operation to track down a group of eight members of an elite communist terrorist (CT) group taking refuge in a rubber estate in Kedah. A member of a special army task force, Mering,
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 the day when Jesus of Nazareth suffered a cruel death when in the prime of his 33 years on earth,
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 James was the oldest son of St Thomas’ school teacher William Wong Tsap Eng who was determined to give his
I’m off to Sarawak’s northern-most region Lawas, on another adventure and a pilgrimage of sorts. In the early 80s, this evangelical Christian enclave was best known as the home of the Lawas river monster – a strange phenomenon in which a serpent – like creature would emerge from the river
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 Sarawak constabulary commissioner Datuk Peter Turnbull in 1959, has come a long way since the colonial era. Ironically, it was
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 and members of the security forces attended a solemn ceremony to honour the first batch of eight Z special unit
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