Will Sarawak move into Phase 2 of NRP this week?

Commentary By Adrian Lim It is hotly speculated that Sarawak will move into Phase 2 of the National Recovery Plan (NRP) this week if the daily...

Ah Chong: One of Kuching’s best-kept secrets

Heritage Snippets of Sarawak By Monica Janowski Following the recent informative talk on the Chinese dragon (lóng 龙) by Dr Monica Janowski, this article is about...

Asian elephants in Borneo and the missing fossil from Bau

Heritage Snippets of Sarawak By LIM Tze Tshen By size, the Asian elephant is the largest wild animal living in Borneo. Its natural geographic distribution in...

Will Manyin’s retirement appease the Bidayuhs?

Commentary By Peter Sibon The recent conferment of the ‘Datuk Amar Bintang Kenyalang’ award which carries the title of 'Datuk Amar' on Minister of Education, Science...

The Jubilee Arch of Rambungan

Commentary by Lian Cheng If you take Jalan Akses FAC or Matang Highway from the big roundabout in front of Wisma Adenan, you will come to...

Sarawak will only be a ‘friendly party’, not a member to any Malaya-based coalition

Commentary By Lian Cheng WHICHEVER side Gabungan Partu Sarawak (GPS) were to join amid the ongoing political “coup” purportedly initiated by Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir...

PRN12: DAP suffers huge defeat, retains only 2 seats

By Adrian Lim Democratic Action Party (DAP) Sarawak has only managed to retain two seats in the 12th Sarawak Election in contrast to the seven...

The Prince and the Dyaks

Heritage Snippets from Sarawak By Alex Teoh An account of the 1st Malaya Borneo Exhibition 1922 in Singapore Set in the early twentieth century, exactly a century...

A glimpse of the “ghost monkey” in Kuching

Heritage Snippets of Sarawak By Hans Breuer NEXT to orangutans and proboscis monkeys, no primate is as iconic to Borneo as Horsfield’s tarsier. The editors of...

‘That’s just a superstition!’

Heritage Snippets of Sarawak By Heidi Munan Superstition, customs, spirits, and all that—in Sarawak! WHERE does superstition end, and custom start? Some people avoid the number 13, or...