Part two of Kitchen Degree Unlimited: three aspiring chefs go to KDU to check out some of their culinary arts training facilities, and learn more about their courses from a career counselor. Check it out:
Championing children’s education
by Education director-general Datuk Dr Habibah Abdul Rahim speaks on the importance of empathy-based education, the challenges of adapting education policies in light of the Covid-19 situation, and her “dream” education system.
I lost my mother to the Japanese war
Whenever Allied planes bombed Sandakan town as part of its campaign to liberate Borneo, Daniel Chin Tung Foh’s grandfather would rush the whole family into a bomb shelter behind their house. During its heyday, the British North Borneo Company had developed Sandakan into a major commercial and trading hub for timber, as well as […]
A witness to the Double Tenth revolt
Chua Hock Yong was born in Singapore, but his grandfather moved the family to British North Borneo (now Sabah) to establish their business in 1939 when he was a year old. The Japanese invaded Borneo shortly after, but the family continued living in their shophouse in Gaya Street, Jesselton, now known as Kota Kinabalu. […]
An encounter with victims of the Sandakan Death Marches
When the Second World War came to Borneo, Pelabiu Akai’s mother moved the family back to their village in Nalapak, Ranau. Although the Japanese were known to be ruthless and brutal conquerors, they left the villagers to their own devices and Pelabiu had a largely uneventful life – until she came across gaunt-looking Allied […]
Sarawak’s only living child prisoner of war
Jeli Abdullah’s mother died from labour complications after giving birth to him and his twin brother. To his Bisaya tribe, this was seen as a bad omen, and his father did not know what to do with the twins. Fortunately, an Australian missionary couple decided to adopt the newborns. But misfortunate fell upon the […]
Lest we forget
AFIO Rudi, 21, had never thought much about his grandfather Jeli Abdullah’s life story until an Australian TV programme interviewed the 79-year-old about being Sarawak’s last surviving World War II child prisoner of war (POW). The engineering student then realised that despite living in Sarawak all his life, he also didn’t know very much of […]
A native uprising against Japanese forces
Basar Paru, 95, was only a teenager when his village in the central highlands of Borneo was invaded by the Japanese Imperial army. “The Japanese told us not to help the British. They said Asians should help each other because we have the same skin, same hair,” Basar recalled. “But we, the Lun Bawang […]
Left behind in wartime chaos
Kadazan native Anthony Labangka was 10 years old when the Japanese Imperial Army invaded Borneo during World War II. Sitting in the verandah of a modern kampung house on a hot afternoon in Kampung Penampang Proper, where he has lived his whole life, Anthony recalls the hardships of the Japanese Occupation. The villagers were […]
R.AGE Audience Survey 2019 + Office Tour contest
Want to be in the running to meet R.AGE producers and journalists? Take part in our R.AGE Audience Survey 2019 by Feb 17, 2019!