Kingwood Hotel

KINGWOOD INN HOTEL KUCHINGKingwood Inn Hotel Kuching equals the comfort of home with its 90 well-appointed rooms and friendly, personal service. The moment you walk into Kingwood Inn Hotel Kuching, you will immediately experience the elegance and comfort of home. The warm, ever-smiling and friendly...

Kuching Night Panorama

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Kucing,Kuching,Cochin,Pusak and Mayao

Kucing,Kuching,Cochin,Pusak and Mayaodo you what is the similiarity and the differences between Kucing,Kuching,Cochin,Pusak and Mayao ?some of the name have similiarity but then some of it also have the differences..Kucing,Kuching and cochin have some similiarity when we pronounced it..Kucing is a cat in bahasa Melayu(Malay language) while Kuching is a state capital of Sarawak..there is only ''h''...

Bornean and Sumatran tribal cosmologies. (Abstracts)

There are terrestrial maps, maps of the heavens, of the seas, and in Southeast Asia there are cosmographic maps setting out the journey that the soul has to take in the afterlife, and maps used for divination. Surviving maps are found on bamboo, paper and other media. Among the most interesting are those used in mortuary cults, especially those practiced in Borneo and Sumatra. In this article the...

A note on native land tenure in Sarawak

I am prompted to write this short paper by recently reading two excellent essays by Drs. Appell and Wadley in Volume 28 of the Borneo Research Bulletin. I only wish their work had been available to me twenty years ago when I was grappling with Native Law in Sabah and Sarawak. The short book I published then (Hooker 1980) would have been much better. In this paper I hope to give a wider context to...

Rajah Of Sarawak

Old Map of Sarawak During Brooke EraPicture of Young James BrookeSource: MUNDY, Rodney, Sir, Narrative of events in Borneo and Celebes, down to the occupation of Labuan, from the journals of James Brooke, Esq. 2 vols. London: J. Murray, 1848. Vol. 1,...