Veteran journalist and author James Ritchie with 35 book titles to his credit has kept himself abreast with political events in Sarawak. Excerpts from his Taib – 50 Years book tell of the present TYT’s efforts to transform Sarawak from a backwater state into what it is today during his
Veteran journalist and author James Ritchie with 35 book titles to his credit has kept himself abreast with political events in Sarawak. Excerpts from his Taib – 50 Years book tell of the present TYT’s efforts to transform Sarawak from a backwater state into what it is today during his
In the days of sorcerers, mystics and holy men, an Arab-Malay prince Sharif Abdul Rahman Alkadrie founded a kingdom on the marshy plains of the Kapuas river. As the legend goes, Sharif Abdul Rahman and his army had to fight off a host of female vampires known as “Pontianak”occupying the
Veteran journalist and author James Ritchie with 35 book titles to his credit has kept himself abreast with political events in Sarawak. Excerpts from his Taib – 50 Years book tell of the present TYT’s efforts to transform Sarawak from a backwater state into what it is today during his
Even as Sarawak enjoys more than 50 years of modernisation and development, it’s always exciting and rewarding writing about the last generation of Borneo’s proud Penan nomads. Thirty years ago I first made a pledge to a nomadic Penan youth named Gerawat Megud that I would tell the
When the Long Seridan airstrip was established by the Borneo Evangelical Mission (BEM) in 1962, the Kelabit village opened up this remote region enabling the isolated forest nomads to enjoy better facilities and attend school. A year earlier the Christian missionaries primary school was built on a hill behind
Over the last 30 years the Sarawak government has spent millions to help uplift the standard of living of the Penan community. As Malaysia approaches the 2020 vision with the hope of being a developed country in less than three years, we can only wonder if former Prime Minister
In the remote Bukit Kida watershed, two days trek east of the Mulu National Park, lives a cluster of about 300 forest nomads whose lives are being transformed by modernisation. Known as the Penan, many of these people who have Mongolian type features, were once referred to by Europeans as
Veteran journalist and author James Ritchie with 35 book titles to his credit has kept himself abreast with political events in Sarawak. Excerpts from his Taib – 50 Years book tell of the present TYT’s efforts to transform Sarawak from a backwater state to what it is today during his
In the remote Bukit Kida watershed, two days trek east of the Mulu National Park, lives a cluster of about 300 forest nomads whose lives are being transformed by modernisation. Known as the Penan, many of these people who have Mongolian type features, were once referred to by Europeans as
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