Reconstructing a university for nation building

February 3, 2019 0 Comment

IN this column I wish to outline my idea for a university for Sabah and another one for Sarawak specifically for their own people. This 3,000-strong student population will have quality education at the degree level for Sabahan and Sarawakians... more »

The voice of the silent majority?

February 2, 2019 0 Comment

JAN 19 marked the fourth anniversary of a public page that I started on Facebook called Sarawak Public Feedback. It began life as Kuching Flood Feedback, during the devastating floods of early 2015, when I had realised that there was... more »

Adat in the state and nation

February 1, 2019 0 Comment

“MALAY adat is a dull subject,” wrote RJ Wilkinson at the beginning of his ‘Papers on Malay Subjects’, which he wrote and compiled in the first decade of the 20th century. Despite that underwhelming introduction, he described in significant detail... more »

The kryptonite in my diet

January 27, 2019 0 Comment

I LOVED all things potatoes. They were perfect in satiating my carbohydrate cravings. I would never say no to them whatever way they were cooked. Recipe books on potatoes graced my bookshelf. They are featured plentifully in Hainanese and Peranakan... more »

Of care, friendship, and hope for cancer patients

January 27, 2019 0 Comment

AT a recent workshop on cancer, medical scientists assured the participants that cancer is curable if it is detected at its early stage. The trouble is that some cancers are discovered when they are at an advanced stage. There are... more »

Rethinking religious relationships in democracy and spirituality

January 27, 2019 0 Comment

IN the Semenanjung, the relationship between religious faiths is fully controlled by Muslims, who are mostly Malays. The method of managing the relationship seems to me to be authoritarian and the concept of ‘make-sure-Islam-comes-up-on-top’ methodology. I may have described this... more »

Unstable slopes in our unstable world

January 27, 2019 0 Comment

IT was three Malaysian newspaper articles last November and December which prompted this article. Yet another landslide occurred on Dec 7 at Canada Hill, Miri, followed by a subsequent article in The Borneo Post of Dec 27 entitled, ‘Mitigating landslides... more »

The fragility of life

January 26, 2019 0 Comment

I LEARNT this week that another classmate of mine has left us to be with the Lord. He was in the same year and class with me at St Thomas’ Secondary in 1967; he had left to join the police... more »

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