Agnes Keith News Today

Kota Kinabalu: STATE Minister of Tourism, Culture and Environment Datuk Christina Liew presenting a copy of an improved version of the 1939 Agnes Keith international classic “Land Below The Wind” to Principal of the Shanghai Badaitou Painting and Calligraphy Institute, Prof Gu Benjian.

On the mysterious jungle-clad island of Borneo, to the east of mainland Malaysia, are the laid-back Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak...

Kota Kinabalu: The international screening of “Saudin: The Orang Utan Whisperer” will be on History Channel (Channel 555) over Astro on Sunday and Monday.

MOST people regard Sandakan as a “dead” town whose glory days ended when it no longer became the State Capital after the war.

Lyna Mohammad Over the years since I learnt about the ‘Land Below the Wind’, Sabah, I read and heard a couple of reasons leading to this sobriquet. The most common was due to the state lying below the typhoon belt of East Asia and never being battered by typhoons, except for tropical storms. However, my […]

CHIEF Minister Datuk Seri Hajiji Noor said the story of Saudin Labutau’s courage as the first Murut to set foot in New York in 1936 should be an inspiration to all, especially the younger generation

Historically significant landmarks in the country unearth a past that is worth remembering and retelling.

Question: How did gardening help during past wars and connect to our country today?

Agnes Newton Keith, the author of two books, “Land Below The Wind,” and “Three Came Home,” was born in Oak Park, Illinois. She graduated from the University of California at Berkeley and later married a British Colonial Officer, Harry Keith.  Agnes and Harry lived in British North Borneo, where she wrote “Land Below The Wind.” The book was about the people, the British aristocracy and the native people of northern Borneo. She and her husband had one son, ...

I REFER to your front page report “British Empire Ended With Sabah” (DE 20.12.2021). I am surprised that this crucial information that sets Sabah apart in Malaysia and the Commonwealth was not public knowledge all this while