Industry Updates
Sarawak Tourism launches “Gateway to Borneo” at WTM London 2024
The Sarawak Tourism Board (STB) is making waves at this year’s World Travel Market (WTM) in London with the debut …
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Culture
Jerunai: The Melanau Burial Pole Involving Human Sacrifice
Graves are meant to be peaceful resting grounds for the deceased but did you know that hundreds of years ago …
Health
How the Sarawakian govt’s mistakes caused the rabies outbreak
Back in his primary school days, this writer remembers sitting with his friends during recess one time and talking about …
Culture
Did you know: Sarawak was actually named after a mineral?
In school, some of us may have remembered a teacher or two mentioning that Sarawak was named that back in …
Education
How the Sarawak state govt got 22,000 people to pay their PTPTN loans
As of November 2021, about 22% of graduates who took the National Higher Education Fund (PTPTN) loan have not started …
Culture
Am I an ‘outsider’? Here’s what it’s like staying in Sarawak as an Indian for 18 years.
Most people have heard of stories of Sarawakians living in Semenanjung and the stereotypes they face. From being asked if …
Art
8 Malaysian statues that made us ask “……Kenapa?
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While scrolling through Facebook on the can earlier today, this masterpiece of a statue popped up on our feed: We …
Culture
Historians claim James Brooke was gay. Was this 16 year-old boy his lover?
While researching on the history of Sarawak, we stumbled upon a very interesting theory regarding the White Rajah of Sarawak, …
Culture
Malaysia Day was supposed to be the same day as Merdeka. But the UN delayed it. Why?
Originally published on September 18th, 2019. In 2019, at a Malaysia Day event in Bintulu, PAS President Hadi Awang …
Culture
This tiny Sarawak jetty costs RM50k, but maybe because it’s made of this rare wood…
When someone tells you there’s a jetty in Sarawak that cost RM50K to build, you might be imagining something that …