The Story of Edward of Kampong Panglima Seman Lama From the end of World War II until the turn of the century, the Malays on the opposite side of the river from Kuching lived in abject poverty. While the townspeople children had schools such as St. Thomas, St. Joseph and Kuching High School, the kampong […]
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Menu Home Posts Gallery Keris Wood Art Sarawak River Valley About Us The Bhuket People of Sarawak The Bhuket People of Sarawak Within the people of Austronesian descent were the Bhuket people of Sarawak. They were studied by Shanthi Thambiah for her doctorate at the University of Hull in 1995. The Bhuket people could have
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Menu Home Posts Gallery Keris Wood Art Sarawak River Valley About Us All Creatures Great and Small #53 New Species A new species of flea beetle has been made known to the Western world. The beetle was found in Brunei. 119481 doi: 10.3897/BDJ.12.e119481 New Species Four new species of the Tussock Moth have been discovered
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Menu Home Posts Gallery Keris (Gallery) Sarawak River Valley About Us The Raja’s Hulu Aqi of Northwest Borneo The Palace of the Rajas Hulu Aqi The Rajahs Hulu Aiq: Kings of the Upriver The resignation of President Suharto on 21 May 1998 unleashed a wave of violence throughout Indonesia. The Chinese were the victims in
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Menu Home Posts Gallery Keris (Gallery) Sarawak River Valley About Us The Tidung People of East Sabah and the Islands Sebatik Island is located off the eastern coast of Sabah. The border between Indonesia and Malaysia runs through the middle of the island, with the northern part belonging to Malaysia. There are several outlying islands
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Menu Home Posts Gallery Keris (Gallery) Sarawak River Valley About Us All Creatures Great and Small #52 Covid 19 Sarawak and Sabah were a population more vulnerable to the pandemic than the rest of Malaysia but the death rate was much lower in the two east coast states. doi.org/10.1007/s44155-024-00068-2 Orangutan There are differences between the
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Menu Home Posts Gallery Keris (Gallery) Sarawak River Valley About Us Tuca: Contacting the Unseen world Tuca by Tom McLaughlin and Suriani Sahari Long ago, there were sayings in the kampong which would tell us about the culture and history of the area. We are going to look at some of these sayings and how
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Menu Home Posts Gallery Keris (Gallery) Sarawak River Valley About Us All Creatures Great and Small #51 SoundThe use of sound to determine the richness of a logged area of a forest was used in an area where the logged area was covered in linanas, a woody vine that climbs over the debris. The tape
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Menu Home Posts Gallery Keris (Gallery) Sarawak River Valley About Us Wafaq In the Sarawak Malay world, there is a line between the pure Islam that everybody worships today and the fuzzy beliefs of the past. These fuzzy beliefs were a combination of supernatural ways from everything to cure one of a disease, to make
Menu Home Posts Gallery Keris (Gallery) Sarawak River Valley About Us The possible travels of the Santubong Buddha Buddhism is one of the world’s largest religions and was established in India around 450 BCE. It spread throughout China, Korea and Japan, followed by incursions into Southeast Asia. In this essay, we attempt to trace the
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