BAKO is a naturalist’s paradise, right on Kuching’s doorstep, for this National Park exhibits a remarkable mixture of plant habitats.…

A MAINLAND Chinese friend of mine, who is taking a Master’s degree at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, phoned the…

I MUST admit that I’ve only seen tapirs in zoos in the United Kingdom and in Singapore. I recently watched…

THIS article was inspired by a chance remark by a Chinese gentleman, some two years ago in July, deep in…

THE Ranau, Kundasang and Mount Kinabalu areas in Sabah are, for personal reasons, very dear and special to me. Whilst…

IN my younger years, often spent on mountain tops in high winds, driving rain and snow blizzards in the United…

NATURE surrounds us even in temperature-controlled urban settings, where we are dependent on the natural world for air, food, water…