KUCHING

kooˈchĭng, city (1991 pop. 277,346), capital of Sarawak, Malaysia, in W Borneo and on the Sarawak River. It is the largest city in the state and a river port. Sago flour and pepper are exported. It was founded in 1839 by James Brooke. In the city are mosques, Buddhist temples, Anglican and Roman Catholic cathedrals, and a museum of Borneo folklore. The population is about two-thirds Chinese.

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books on: Kuching  - 161 results

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1.
Japanese Empire in the Tropics: Selected Documents and Reports of the Japanese Period in Sarawak, Northwest Borneo, 1941-1945
Book by Keat Gin Ooi; Ohio University Press, 1998
Subjects: Sarawak--History--Sources, World War, 1939-1945--Japan--Sources, World War, 1939-1945--Malaysia--Sarawak--Sources, World War, 1939-1945--Personal Narratives, Malaysian--Sources
...to them. H. The Sarawak Volunteers, Kuching Corps 1. Commanding Officer, Major R. E. Edwards, Kuching also Director, Public Works Department...Newman also Director of Agriculture Kuching. Adjutant Major F. W. Crafter, of...
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Power and Prowess: The Origins of Brooke Kingship in Sarawak
Book by J. H. Walker; Allen & Unwin, 2002
Subjects: Sarawak--History
...resisted by it, the interests of the Kuching compradors were served by and dependent...into new areas. Although many of the Kuching Chinese community reached Sarawak from...from Singapore in 1850. 119 By 1851 the Kuching Chinese community was sufficiently large...
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Healthy Cities and Urban Policy Research
Book by Takehito Takano; Spon Press, 2003
Subjects: Urban Health--Congresses, Who Healthy Cities Project--Congresses
NOTE 1 Kuching Kuching is the state capital of Sarawak, one of the 13 states in Malaysia. Historically, Kuching was a revering settlement and trading post about 12 kilometres up the...
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Women Workers, Migration and Family in Sarawak
Book by Hew Cheng Sim; RoutledgeCurzon, 2003
Subjects: Ethnology--Malaysia--Sarawak, Minority Women--Employment--Malaysia--Sarawak, Rural-Urban Migration--Malaysia--Sarawak, Women--Employment--Malaysia--Sarawak, Women--Malaysia--Sarawak--Social Conditions
...Biatah dialect is spoken by the Bidayuh in Kuching District, the Bukar-Sadong dialect...numbers of Bidayuh in the proximity of Kuching, they were conspicuously absent in the...1947, there were only 227 Bidayuh in Kuching and this constituted only 0.6 per cent...
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Public Health Practice in Australia: The Organised Effort
Book by Vivian Lin, James Smith, Sally Fawkes, Priscilla Robinson, Susan Chaplin; Allen & Unwin, 2007
Subjects: Public Health Administration--Australia
...been applied (schools and Box 15.9 Kuching: Pursuing health through the Healthy Cities approach Kuching, a city in Sarawak in Malaysia, began...green spaces and trees. The mission of Kuching Healthy City is to help its people make...
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journal articles on: Kuching  - 64 results

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Life in the Kampongs of Kuching, Fifty Years Ago
Journal article by Craig A. Lockard; Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 34, 2003
Subjects: Life in the kampongs of Kuching, fifty years ago (Book)--Reviews
Life in the kampongs of Kuching, fifty years ago. by Craig A. Lockard...ZAINAL ABIDIN and ABDULLAH SALLEH Kuching: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, 2002...British rule. Spending three months in Kuching, the two students surveyed the string...
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Indigenous People, the State and Ethnogenesis: A Study of the Communal Associations of the 'Dayak' Communities in Sarawak, Malaysia
Journal article by Tan Chee-Beng; Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 28, 1997
Subjects: Collective settlements--Social aspects, Ethnic groups--Malaysia, Ethnohistory--Malaysia, Indigenous peoples--Malaysia, Malaysia--Demographic aspects
...in the First Division (now Bahagian Kuching and Bahagian Samarahan), more specifically in the districts of Kuching, Serian, Bau and Lundu, although...Orang Ulu. It is in the cities like Kuching and Mid that non-Iban and non-Bidayuh...
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The Politics and Aesthetics of Place-names in Sarawak
Journal article by Kee Howe Yong; Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 80, 2007
Subjects: Field study, History, Independence movements, Language, Linguistics, Politics, Sarawak Malaysia
...three new villages along the Kuching to Serian road, the township of...and the coastal areas north of Kuching. Betsy Rymes (1996) noted out...Sarawak met at the state capital, Kuching to discuss about the situation in...
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The Impact of Urbanization on Family Structure: The Experience of Sarawak, Malaysia
Journal article by Cheng Sim Hew; SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia, Vol. 18, 2003
Subjects: Households--International aspects, Sarawak, Malaysia--Social aspects, Unmarried mothers--Social aspects
...behaviour of young single migrant women in Kuching was frequently more of a consequence of...marital dissolution in villages outside of Kuching. One reason for this is declining male...her home. As she lived ten miles from Kuching, she had no transportation and money...
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For Want of Rice: Sarawak's Attempts at Rice Self-Sufficiency during the Period of Brooke Rule, 1841-1941
Journal article by Ooi Keat Gin; Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 29, 1998
Subjects: Agricultural policy--Analysis, Autarchy--Analysis, Grain industry--International trade, Malaysia--Agricultural policy, Sarawak, Malaysia--International trade
...land to grow padi at a location south of Kuching in the present-day Sungei Maong and...along Penrissen Road on the outskirts of Kuching.(15) Government encouragement of padi...almost 70 per cent, was consumed at Kuching, and the remainder distributed to the...
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magazine articles on: Kuching  - 18 results

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FedEx Launches Kuching Service
Magazine article; Business Asia, Vol. 8, February 11, 2000
Subjects: Air freight--Foreign operations, Federal Express Corp.--Foreign operations, Freight forwarders--Foreign operations, High technology industry--International aspects, Homan Forwarding and Transport Agency--Contracts, Kuching, Malaysia--Business and industry
FedEx launches Kuching service Federal Express, the worlds largest express transport company, has launched new services in Kuching, Malaysia, in response to increased demand for air express services due to rapid industrialisation in the state...
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Farewell to the King - Sarawak's White Rajah
Magazine article by Jan Kimbrough; American Cinematographer, Vol. 70, April 1989
...we were very pleasantly surprised. Kuching is a very old city, the seat of Rajah...is also a daily ferry service between Kuching and Singapore. International long distance...runs a five star hotel in the heart of Kuching. That means that the logistics of moving...
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Global Outlook Conferences around the World
Magazine article; Information Today, Vol. 28, June 2011
...cilip.org .uk/umbrella2011. 12-14: Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia (Hilton Kuching Hotel). The seventh biennial International...technology (ICT) professionals. Site: Hilton Kuching Hotel, Jalan Tunku Abdul Rahman, Kuching...
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The Legacy of Francis Thomas Mcdougall
Magazine article by David A. Edwards; International Bulletin of Missionary Research, Vol. 31, October 2007
Subjects: Learning, Religious missions, Theology
...Mission McDougall and his party arrived at Kuching on the Sarawak River in June 1848 and...McDougall built a church and mission house in Kuching, both of which are still standing, and...McDougall spent most of his time in and around Kuching, but he also paid a few visits to Dayak...
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Biodiversity in Borneo : Sabah and Sarawak Captivate Intrepid Visitors with Their Amazing Biodiversity and Ancient Caves
Magazine article by Iris Brooks; World and I, Vol. 18, March 2003
Subjects: Biodiversity, Biological diversity, Borneo--Description and travel, Caves--Discovery and exploration
...fountain of youth. In quaint capital city of Kuching, I meet Philip Yong, owner of Borneo...Village, located forty minutes outside Kuching. While exploring a variety of longhouses...three hundred miles up the coast from Kuching and close to the border of Brunei. At...
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newspaper articles on: Kuching  - 60 results

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Shirley Halili-Cruz Dancers Represent RP in Kuching International Dance Festival
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, July 23, 2010
Subjects: Festivals
...Shirley Halili-Cruz Dancers Represent RP in Kuching International Dance Festival. Once again...invited to represent the Philippines in the 2nd Kuching International Dance Festival being held in Kuching, Malaysia till July 26, 2010. The festival...
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Holiday: Going like a Bat out of Borneo - Backpacker's Paradise; YOU Can Still Enjoy Great Travel Adventures on the Cheap. Mercury Reader JIM SOLISKI Reports on His Back-Packing Borneo Race against Time and the Flying Dutchman
Newspaper article; Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England), January 14, 2001
...myself. Next day, we were both heading to Kuching, the most westerly city of consequence...overnight and then a high-speed ferry to Kuching would shuttle us in early the next morning...young fellows running empty from Sibu to Kuching rumbled up. They cleared the rear sleeping...
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Going Wild in Borneo
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), April 23, 2011
...lawn. empire have a strong presence in Kuching, the main city of Sarawak, whose elegant...ghosts of empire have a strong presence in Kuching, the awak, whose elegant riverfront...for Malaysias multifaceted culture in Kuching, but if you want to learn more about...
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Adventure in the Cat City
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, August 16, 2008
Subjects: Cats, Domestic cats
...Adventure in the Cat City. the city of Kuching Basking in the warm ambience that causes...of what it is to live like them. Take Kuching, the capital city of the state of Sarawak...cat would have. Like an ideal getaway, Kuching exudes a feeling of being lost in time...
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Tippling with Headhunters; Night of Laughter in Borneo
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 1, 2005
...Malaysian state, from the outskirts of Kuching to the impenetrable jungles near the border...Angeles to Kuala Lumpur with connections to Kuching and Miri in Sarawak. Ground transportation...plank walks connecting rooms. North of Kuching on the coast of the South China Sea...
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encyclopedia articles on: Kuching  - 3 results

 
 
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Kuching
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
KUCHING koo ching, city (1991 pop. 277,346), capital of Sarawak, Malaysia, in W Borneo and on the Sarawak River. It is the largest...
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Borneo
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...The coastal area is generally swampy and fringed with mangrove forests. Banjarmasin, Pontianak, Balikpapan, Tarakan, Kuching, Bandar Seri Begawan, and Sandakan are leading ports. The climate is tropical, i.e., hot and humid; annual rainfall...
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Sarawak
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...China Sea. It is bordered on the NE by the states of Brunei and Sabah and on the S and W by Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo). Kuching is the capital, and Sibu is an important port. Petroleum is the chief mineral, and sago, pepper, and rubber are important...


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