SARAWAK REGATTA ~ Paddling Into The Past

SARAWAK REGATTA ~ Paddling Into The PastBy Sanib SaidDirector Sarawak Museum Other than known as the Land of Perfection (Darul Hana) during the Brunei Sultanate Period and now the Land of Hornbills, Sarawak is also known as the Land of Many Rivers. Certainly there are countless rivers, small and big...

THE LOINCLOTH OF BORNEO

THE LOINCLOTH OF BORNEO Otto Steinmayer, Universiti Malaya Drawings by Augustine Anggat Ganjing In Memoriam Augustine Anggat anak Ganjing, died 14 February 2007, Kuching. Photograph by Charles Hose, ca. 1900 "All this is not too bad—but what's the use? They don't wear breeches." Michel...

An insight into Brooke's raj

New Straits Times, 31 May 1991Henry Keppel: The Expedition to Borneo of HMS Dido. reprint by Oxford University Press, Singapore, 1991, of the original second edition published by Chapman and Hall, London, 1846. Two volumes in one with an introduction by R.H.W. Reece. 764 pages + maps and illustrations. Reviewed by Otto Steinmayer. How they could write in those days! Henry Keppel and James Brooke,...

Majlis bandaraya Miri

This is the official seal of Majlis bandaraya Miri (Miri City counc...

Miri resort City

Miri is a city in northern Sarawak, Malaysia, on the island of Borneo. Miri is home to a population of about 300,000 people and is thus the second largest city in Sarawak. It serves as the government administrative centre of Miri District (4,707.1 square kilometers) in Miri Division of Sarawak. Miri...