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. […]
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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
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 […]
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Nov
Nov
Let us face it: some still see conservation and management of cultural heritage as rich countries’ luxuries, beyond bread-and-butter development needs; or as vehicles to promote western concepts of what should be regarded as beautiful and precious and, therefore, worth preserving. Are the proponents of that understanding on the right track? Not so. Let us […]
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Nov
Nov
download pdf version of this bulletin The Brooke Gallery, Fort Margherita and the new “Urang Sarawak” exhibition at the Sarawak Museum opened in September, just 4 days apart. Both are valuable additions to the Sarawak history and heritage scene. See our articles of 29 Oct. and 31 Oct. 2016, respectively, on these exhibits. The Sarawak […]
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Oct
Oct
[updated 04 Nov. 2016] The new exhibition, which opened on Sept. 28, – 4 days after the opening of the Brooke Gallery at Fort Margherita -is a journey into Sarawak’s history and culture(s). Set up in the Art Museum wing of the Sarawak Museum, it replaces the gallery on Sarawak’s history and culture that was […]