JAFDIN Petrus fondly recalls his grandparents sharing stories about the Japanese invasion and British colonisation of North ...

For several years the boundary line between the English and Dutch possessions in Borneo has caused much hard feeling among the settlers of both countries living near the disputed lines ...

First transmitted in 1964, this programme follows the lives of a group of British soldiers from 40 Commando Royal Marines, as they set up camp and patrol the North Borneo jungle, in search of ...

Malaysia is only 61 years old despite the Federation of Malaya attaining independence 67 years ago. Malaysia Day and Merdeka ...

In the early 1880s, Moses, an American trader, obtained a lease over North Borneo from Brunei. The lease eventually passed to Alfred Dent, an Englishman. In 1881, he signed a treaty with Brunei and ...

It is one of the two Malaysian northern Borneo states, with the other being Sarawak. Sabah was part of the British protectorate of North Borneo until 1963. Mountainous and jungle-covered ...

Sandakan, the second largest city in Sabah, is located on the north-eastern coast of Borneo and is the administrative centre of the Sandakan division and was the former capital of British North Borneo ...

By the 1860s, Britain was growing tired of maintaining its colonies. The costs, especially of defending British North America, were burdens that a growing number of British politicians could do ...

The British team found that Deer Cave ... In late March I reached him by phone in Kuching, a city on Borneo’s west coast, as he traveled north to meet them. “We will probably find somewhere ...

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