Leave Sarawak alone

Commentary By Peter Sibon Sarawak is literally a paradise in all aspects of the word. With its current population of 2.8 million from at least 27...

Puso’s Jar (Part I)

Heritage Snippets of Sarawak By Jayl Langub Within every object in the Sarawak Museum collection lies a human story waiting to be heard. The jar in...

Prehistoric gibbons and monkeys from Niah, and the Dutch palaeontologist Dirk Albert Hooijer

Heritage Snippets of Sarawak By Lim Tze Tshen MODERN PRIMATES IN BORNEO AND AROUND NIAH NATIONAL PARK PERHAPS due to their human-like nature and complex social behaviour,...

What ‘Shared Prosperity’ means for Sarawak

Commentary By Peter Sibon Recently, a foreign diplomat said Malaysia is on the brink of being a developed country. In fact, Malaysia was projected to attain...

The sape’s evolution in Sarawak’s traditional music legacy

Heritage Snippets of Sarawak By Dr Connie Lim Keh Nie ESTABLISHED in 1998, the Rainforest World Music Festival (RWMF) aims to promote and preserve the unique...

PRN12: Chinese tsunami gives GPS breakthrough in opposition strongholds

Commentary By Lian Cheng GABUNGAN Parti Sarawak (GPS) has made a clean sweep of 76 seats in the 12th Sarawak Election, an unsurprising outcome as political...

Traditional titles (gelar) in Sarawak

Heritage Snippets of Sarawak With the recent changes in our State leadership, this article serves to teach and remind us of the old, complex and...

Living with Covid-19: ‘Long Covid’ after-effect a nightmare for recovering patients

By Lian Cheng When BBC reporter Lucy Adams appeared recently to share her experience and the suffering she endured after battling a prolonged Covid-19 infection,...

Nooh Dawa and the dragon as Great Spirit — a Lundayeh tale

Heritage Snippets of Sarawak This is the fourth of a four-part series titled 'The Naga Moves: Dragon Tales from Borneo'. The first three parts can...

2020, a Covid-19 year; comparatively a good year for Sarawak nonetheless

By Lian Cheng and Karen Bong 2020 is the year where Covid-19 virus emerged to rule the world. It was a year of disaster where the...