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ON HIS side Kwok had about one hundred of his Kinabalu band and could count on nearly twice that number of islanders. Very few of his men had any military training. Peter and Dewa Singh were ex-policemen and Li Tet Phui and Jules Stephens had some part-time experience as soldiers.  The rest were new to the business. No written orders of the force have survived. Very likely there were none. People have taken different views of what Kwok’s plan really was.  Some think he intended to knock out the Japanese in Jesselton, hold the town and rally supporters to his banner, then, with ...

Albert Kwok, a young Chinese, had come to Jesselton (now Kota Kinabalu) in 1940. He was a Sarawak man, born in Kuching, where his father was a dentist. He was trained in the arts of Chinese healing and had been a very successful Chinese doctor in Nanking, Hankow and Canton.  He returned to Borneo in 1940 and made his home with his sister and her husband in Jesselton. Here he carried on his work as a Chinese doctor until his stock of medicines ran out. Kwok was a busy man, full of energy. He always tried to look on the bright side of things and hoped for the best.  He had seen somethi...

A PIL in the Delhi High Court has challenged the AAP government's guidelines for scrapping motor vehicles claiming the requirements for a license under these norms would oust small and marginal scrap dealers. "The impugned guidelines are heavily tilted against small and semi-formal automobile scrappers who have been engaged in the business for generations," the petition has contended. The plea by Delhi resident Inderjit Singh has claimed that such small time scrap dealers were not heard before issuing the Guidelines for Scrapping of Motor Vehicles of Delhi, 2018. The petition, filed throu...