I WAS quietly chuckling to myself. The front page of The Borneo Post of Aug 4, 2023, showed our Yang di-Pertuan Agong AlSultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah, together with His Majesty, the Sultan of Brunei Darussalam Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, watering a tree known as ‘Simpor’ (Dillenia
IN my case, writing began with an insatiable interest in reading anything about everything, over and above the textbooks, prescribed by my teachers.
In the early 1950s, the only newspaper available in English was the ‘Sarawak Tribune’; available in Malay was the ‘Utusan Sarawak’.
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