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Miri is the second largest city in Sarawak, [8] with a population of 356,900 as of 2020. [5] The city is also the capital of Miri District, Miri Division. Before Miri was founded, Marudi was the administrative centre of the northern region of Sarawak. Miri was founded in 1910 when the first oil well was drilled by Royal Dutch Shell. The ...
(c) Miri was neither (a) nor (b) but referred to lands given out for conditional public use, while ultimate ownership lay with the Emir. It was feudal or State land, but can also specifically refer to vacant State land, private usufruct State land. A sub-category of the same is mahlul (f), or what is defined as escheated State land. [8]
Under the Japanese occupation British Borneo were divided into five provinces (shūs): [6] [35] [36] Kyūchin-shū (久鎮州): Sarawak First and Second Divisions, Pontianak and Natuna Islands. [note 2] Shibu-shū (志布州): Sarawak Third Division; Miri-shū (美里州): Sarawak Fourth and Fifth Divisions, Brunei Town.
The seat of this division is the city of Miri. Miri Division consists of two districts: Miri and Marudi . Of the 21 seismic events that happened in Sarawak from 1874 to 2011, the majority of them occurred between Niah and Selangau regions, which corresponds to Miri and Bintulu Divisions with Modified Mercalli intensity scale (MMI) of 3.5 to 5.3 ...
Mising is an endonym which literally means "man of the soil." Miri, on the other hand, is an exonym commonly applied by plains Assamese people. The origin of the term Mising is believed to be coming from the river named Siang that connects with Brahmaputra in Assam.
A painting of a gentry scholar with two courtesans, by Tang Yin, c. 1500. The four occupations (simplified Chinese: 士农工商; traditional Chinese: 士農工商; pinyin: Shì nóng gōng shāng), or "four categories of the people" (Chinese: 四民; pinyin: sì mín), [1] [2] was an occupation classification used in ancient China by either Confucian or Legalist scholars as far back as the ...
The Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI), formerly the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (SIAI), is a non-profit research institute focused since 2005 on identifying and managing potential existential risks from artificial general intelligence.
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