Click here to download pdf version What we spotted of interest on the Sarawak and regional cultural heritage scene in the last six months. NATION WIDE Heritage management did not feature during the political campaigns during the 14th General Elections of 9 May 2018. After the elections, calls were made to reinstate a ministry […]
Author Archives: SHS-web
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Aug
Aug
download pdf version SARAWAK Land clearing observed early March just uphill from the Bongkissam archaeological site, Santubong, raised alarm in the heritage-sensitive community, because of the known archaeological potential of the area (for example, uphill from the shrine, partial excavations undertaken in the 1950s-60s at Bukit Maras revealed items related to the Indian Gupta tradition, […]
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Mar
download pdf version SARAWAK What did we hear, see and learn on the Sarawak heritage scene in the last four months? Statements by the now Chief Minister and Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture Datuk Amar Abang Johari Tun Openg, on several occasions provided an updated picture of the Government pipeline of projects touching on […]
Food for Thought/Opinions, Heritage News/Info
More Borneo WW2 shipwrecks plundered, this time in Sabah
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Feb
In January, three Japanese WW2 shipwrecks lying off Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, were reported to have been extensively stripped for metal salvaging. Coming after similar occurrences on military shipwrecks in the Java and South China Sea, the divers’ community and the fishermen (who benefit from the wrecks, which act as artificial reefs) once again showed outrage. […]
Food for Thought/Opinions, Heritage News/Info
Notice of de-registration of Kuala Lumpur listed heritage creates stir
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Feb
Feb
[updated 07 March 2017] The ‘MaTiC’ complex, on Jalan Ampang, Kuala Lumpur, is centered on a colonial architecture house built in 1935 as the home of a business tycoon, the “Eu Tong Sen house” and the “Dewan Tunku Abdul Rahman”, the hall where Tunku Abdul Rahman was installed as Malaysia’s first Agong in 1957 and […]
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Dec
“A passion for conserving historical buildings“, Borneo Post online, 11 Dec. 2016 A page-long Borneo Post article on architect Mike Boon (former Sarawak Heritage Society president, who has been instrumental in setting up the SHS and on stimulating awareness and advocacy on the preservation of Sarawak’s built heritage) and Dr John Ting (architectural historian, Assistant […]