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For this reason, the first sixteen-page edition of the periodical "The North Borneo Herald and Official Gazette" appeared on 1 March 1883, in Kudat, the first capital of North Borneo. [ 1 ] For the monthly publication of the newspaper and the printing in the Dent Road no. 1, Thomas J. Keaughran, [ note 1 ] a former reporter of The Straits Times ...
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Returning to North Borneo in 1893, he served in various posts including Postmaster-General of North Borneo and Labuan (1894); editor of the British North Borneo Herald; Acting Secretary to the Governor; Sessions Judge; Acting District Officer, Sandakan; Deputy Governor (1896); and Superintendent of the Public Works Department (1897). [1] [2] [3 ...
This is a list of newspapers in Brunei. Berita Brunei - first published in March 1957; October 1959 it was renamed as Berita Borneo; Bintang Harian - published in both Malay and English; first appeared in March 1966; Borneo Bulletin - first appeared on November 7, 1953; the only newspaper in Brunei to publish seven days a week
The Johnsons' final trip together took them to British North Borneo again, from 1935 to 1936. They used their smaller amphibious plane, now renamed The Spirit of Africa and Borneo, and produced footage for the feature Borneo (1937). Martin Johnson was a member of the Adventurers' Club of New York. [8]
Elizabeth Choy Su-Moi OBE (née Yong; 29 November 1910 – 14 September 2006) was a Singaporean educator and councillor who is regarded as a war heroine in Singapore.Along with her husband, Choy Khun Heng, she supplied medicine, money and messages to Far East prisoners of war and civilian internees held in Changi Prison during the Japanese occupation of Singapore in World War II.
Walter Keith Caple Wookey (1912 - 1963), also known as Keith Wookey, was a District Officer and later Resident in the post-war British Colonial Government of North Borneo. At some point Wookey was the most senior official stationed in Sandakan as Resident (known as Resident Commissioner in full) and was also appointed by the Queen to the ...