Richness and poverty are the outcomes of human effort. Richness is the result of efficient effort whereas poverty is the result of lack of efficiency in the historical background from time to time. Time can speak. It can speak according to the effectiveness of thought and its usage. Time is not bias to the richness […]
Corruption & Unending Problems in Africa
Corruption and Unending Problems in Africa Africa is incontrovertibly blessed with an abundance of natural resources, especially land that is rich in all sorts of imaginable minerals. Hundreds and thousands of fertile tracts that are conducive for agriculture can be found nowhere else on the globe except in most African countries. Had these resources been […]
Borneo Cultural Festival
SIBU/Sarawak: Borneo Cultural Festival (BCF) will soon become one of Malaysia’s ‘cultural identities’ and shall be known as such from now on. To realize this, the Malaysian government, through the Ministry of Culture, Arts and Heritage will gazette the event sometime in September, this year so that it would be part of the national […]
Tribal Tattoo Creates Waves
04/07/07 By Roger J. Duyong SIBU/Sarawak: The Second Borneo International Tattoo Convention has drawn down its curtain on Sunday evening with at least one thing achieved – awareness. Federal Deputy Minister of Housing and Local Government Datuk Robert Lau Hoi Chew, when officiating at the closing ceremony believed that awareness in the importance […]
Borneo Dayak Cultural Festivals
By Roger J Duyong SIBU/Sarawak/04/07/07: The Iban community here is urged to revive its culture of tattoo on the body as a unique identity of the people. The age-old culture should be appreciated as a heritage and be revived before it would be gone forever. The message came from Malaysia’s Deputy Foreign Affairs […]
The U.S Patriot Act And You!
The Patriot Act was passed into law on October 24, 2001 by the Congress of the United States, just 45 days after the September 11 attacks, with virtually no debate. There are significant flaws in the Patriot Act, flaws that threaten your fundamental freedoms by giving the government the power to access your medical records, […]