Two Petronas subsidiaries in Azerbaijan have reportedly been seized by bailiffs after a French arbitration court ruled in March that Malaysia has to pay the descendants of the Sultan of Sulu at least RM62.59 billion
1945
I feel that the above script is not complete without the following incidents. So I give below a short account of what I still remember. But before that I shall continue from where I left. That is the arrival of the Aussies. That night we were asked not to keep on any light or strike a match and were asked to stay inside. The Aussies hadalready dug foxholes for the night operation. They had the automatics ready. We kept ourselves locked inside our house. The next morning when I woke up and came out I saw a ghastly sight. A Japanese cut into two around the waist-the weapon had done the job-holding vegetables in one hand.
Perhaps he had been in search of vegetables from the nearby garden, which the Chinese had left unattended. There must have been similar cases elsewhere too. Really a terrible sight. The few Japanese soldiers left behind were scattered here and there, and there was no officer to guide them and they had to find their own way. In a couple of days we had moved t
Former State Secretary Tan Sri Simon Sipaun (inset) said Sabah will have fared better, including in its dealings with the Federal Government, if the Double Six tragedy that wiped out five of Sabah’s top leaders, along with six others, did not happen on June 6, 1976
Borderland is a land of complexity. Before the establishment and expansion of the British North Borneo Company in the late 19th century, the Tawau District was under the influence of sultanates in the region, i.e., Brunei, Sulu, and Bulungan in Kalimantan. In a map published by the British North Borneo Company in 1888, the territory under its control covered the entire Sebatik Island as well as Nunukan Island. The land borders were later fine-tuned several times after the Anglo-Dutch treaty was signed in 1891, with Sebatik Island politically dissected into two parts and Nunukan Island transferred to Kalimantan. This had changed the fate of the local people for generations, as the territorial arrangement was subsequently adopted by Malaysia and Indonesia after gaining independence from the colonists.
Sebatik Island was one of the crucial battlefields during Konfrontasi. On 28th June 1965, the Indonesian force entered the eastern part of the island and attempted to launch an attac
Agnes Newton Keith, the author of two books, “Land Below The Wind,” and “Three Came Home,” was born in Oak Park, Illinois. She graduated from the University of California at Berkeley and later married a British Colonial Officer, Harry Keith.
Agnes and Harry lived in British North Borneo, where she wrote “Land Below The Wind.” The book was about the people, the British aristocracy and the native people of northern Borneo. She and her husband had one son, George.
When the Japanese conquered Borneo at the outset of World War II, she, her husband and son were taken prisoner and were separated in different prison camps.
Her husband and the other British Colonial officials were sent to a prison camp near Kuching, while she and her son and the wives and children of the colonial officials were first sent to the Valhalla camp just outside of Sandakan. Some time afterward, the wives and children were transferred to a camp outside of Kuchin