From haplessness to feat of wealth

Many readers responded positively to my two articles on ‘pemali’ (ancestral ban) in the last two weeks. A few told me they also observe and practise injunctions of their own inherited from their forebears. All are in favour of more tales on these prohibitions which relate Iban world of old to the present. All these […]

Younger generation needs to understand struggles of nation’s forebears

By Mohd Zahid Ahmad Zaki   KUCHING: ‘Malaysia Prihatin’, the theme for this year’s National Day and Malaysia Day celebrations, is fitting with the situation the nation is going through now, says a Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) lecturer. According to him, during this difficult time, cooperation from all parties — the government, opposition parties, private […]