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unusual facts about Kolej DPAH Abdillah, Kuching



Alan Rice-Oxley

From 1942-1945 he was interned by the Japanese as a civilian internee at Batu Lintang camp near Kuching, Sarawak.

Amirul Hakim

Amirul Hakim Ahmad (Jawi: أميرول حاكيم احمد born 22 September 1991 in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia) is a Malaysian actor.

Asian Geographic

ASIAN Geographic PASSPORT organises travel photography workshops to places such as Kuching, Malaysia and Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Battle of North Borneo

The two 20th Brigade battalions were now joined by the 2/13th Battalion, which had conducted an unopposed landing at Lutong on 20 June, before continuing their advance down the south-western coast, passing through Miri, Lutong and Seria on their way towards Kuching.

Benedict Sandin

Benedict Sandin (1918–1982) was an Iban ethnologist, historian, and Curator of the Sarawak Museum in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia.

Berhala Island, Sabah

During the war, civilian internees, including Agnes Newton Keith and her husband Harry Keith were held in the quarantine station which served as a makeshift internment camp, before being transferred to Batu Lintang camp in Kuching, Sarawak.

Bidayuh

They constitute one of the main indigenous groups in Sarawak & West Kalimantan and live in towns and villages around Kuching and Samarahan in the Malaysian state of Sarawak, while in West Kalimantan they are mainly concentrated in the northern Sanggau Regency.

Celcom

As of April 1, 2006, Celcom already has 3G network in areas such as Kuching, Seremban, Alor Star, Sungai Petani, Tanjung Malim, Ipoh, Bukit Merah, Taiping, Kota Bharu, Kuantan, Perlis and Kota Kinabalu.

Chong Chieng Jen

He continued his education from Primary 3 to 5 at Kuching's Chung Hua Primary School No.3, and Primary 6 at SRK St. Theresa Padungan, Kuching.

Church of the Province of South East Asia

The current Metropolitan Archbishop is the Bishop of Kuching, the Most Reverend Datuk Bolly Lapok.

Diocese of Kuching

The present Bishop is the Most Revd Datuk Bolly Lapok, who is the 13th Lord Bishop of Kuching since 1855, when the diocese was first created.

The current bishop, The Most Rev'd Datuk Bolly Lapok, 4th Archbishop of the Anglican Church in the Province of Southeast Asia and 13th Lord Bishop of the Diocese of Kuching, was consecrated 14 May 2007.

Dutch East Indies campaign

In addition to the landings at Miri, the Japanese forces made landings at Seria, Kuching, Jesselton and Sandakan between 15 December 1941 and 19 January 1942.

Genzan Air Group

At the end of February, the unit was transferred to Bangkok and assigned to patrols over the Indian Ocean; however, facilities at Bangkok were not satisfactory and the unit was soon reassigned to Palembang in Sumatra in the Netherlands East Indies, with some aircraft dispersed to Kuching in Sarawak.

HMAS Kapunda

Following the war, Kapunda was used to assist the evacuation of Allied prisoners-of-war from Kuching, and was the venue for the signing of the surrender of Japanese forces in the Kuching area, with Major General Yamamura signing the instrument of surrender on board.

Huang Sheng Shyan

At the age of 60 Huang Sheng Shyan again demonstrated his abilities in taijiquan by defeating Liao Kuang-Cheng, the Asian champion wrestler 26 throws to 0 in a fund raising event in Kuching Malaysia.

Japanese cruiser Mikuma

In December 1941, Mikuma was tasked with the invasion of British Borneo, together with Mogami, covering landings of Japanese troops at Miri and Kuching.

Japanese destroyer Sagiri

From 17 December, Sagiri covered Japanese landings at Miri and at Kuching in Sarawak.

Kenelm Hubert Digby

In 1934 he was called to the Bar and a few days later sailed to Kuching in Sarawak as a newly recruited District Officer to work for Rajah Charles Vyner Brooke, last of the White Rajahs of Sarawak.

Kinta District

In Malaysia, there are only three cities administered by City Hall, in Kuala Lumpur, Kuching North (Kuching Utara) and Kota Kinabalu.

Kolej DPAH Abdillah, Kuching

As of 2005, the Kolej Abdillah has two taekwondo clubs: the International Taekwon-Do Federation (ITF) and World Taekwondo Federation (WTF).

The school has been competitive in the Young Entrepreneurs Program, and it won several national awards in 2002 and 2005, defeating other schools in Malaysia, two of which are MCKK and Victoria Institution.

Lionel Matthews

Matthews was shot by firing squad, along with two members of the North Borneo Armed Constabulary and six other Asians on the 2 March 1944 at Kuching, Sarawak.

Made Katib

He started as a deacon on 22 September 1968 and a year later he was ordained a priest by the Diocese of Kuching’s first indigenous bishop, the Right Rev Datuk Basil Temenggong.

Margaret Lim

Born in 1947 in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, Margaret spent her childhood in the interior of Sarawak.

MASwings

He also said that if the flights were successful, they will also introduce routes from Kota Kinabalu to Tawau and Tarakan and from Kuching to Mulu and Bandar Seri Begawan.

Metrojaya

CityOne Megamall, Kuching (130,000 sq ft ) - The largest Metrojaya store in East Malaysia and the 3rd largest Metrojaya Store throughout Malaysia.

Nigel Cornwall

Cornwall served as Bishop, based in Kuching, for thirteen years until 1962, when this Diocese was again divided into the Diocese of Jesselton (later the Diocese of Sabah) which included Labuan, and the Diocese of Kuching which included Brunei.

No. 26 Squadron RAF

An advance party was moved to Aden in March 1963 and the remainder to RAF Kuching, Borneo in November 1963 for a one year unaccompanied tour.

No. 93 Squadron RAAF

It dropped leaflets announcing the Japanese surrender over Japanese-held areas until 9 September and conducted a show of force over Kuching on 11 September.

Operation Claret

At peak artillery strength in 1965–1966 there were six batteries (two from the Royal Malaysian Artillery) of 105mm Pack Howitzer, half a battery of 5.5-in Guns and a section of 4.2 in Mortars operated by men detached from the light air defence battery defending Kuching airport.

Peter John Jaban

He worked in the Land and Survey Office in Sarawak's capital Kuching but resigned in 2006.

Sarawak State Legislative Assembly

The State Legislative Assembly convenes at the Sarawak State Legislative Assembly Building in the capital Kuching.

Sarawak State Stadium

Sarawak State Stadium (Stadium Negeri in Malay) is a multi-purpose stadium in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia.

Sekolah Menengah Agama Persekutuan Labu

On 16 June 1989, Tuan Hj Abu Bakar bin Lebai Mat came as the next principal (replacing Tuan Hj Mahmud bin Mohd Rashid who moved to Kuching).

SS Ural Maru

On her last voyage, Ural Maru had departed Singapore bound for Takao in Taiwan and had called on Kuching and Miri in Japanese-occupied Sarawak, where she loaded Japanese wounded, nurses and a number of "comfort women".

Sungai Sarawak Regulation Scheme

The Sungai Sarawak Regulation Scheme (acronym SSRS) is a major civil engineering project in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia.

Swinburne University of Technology

The Sarawak campus is located in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia.

Tom Eastick

By September 1945 Eastick had been appointed commander of Kuching Force, a detachment of the 9th Division which supervised the Japanese surrender in the territory of Sarawak, on the island of Borneo.

Tzu Chi Malaysia

This then led to the progressive establishment of more Liaison Centers in East Malaysia, namely, Kota Kinabalu, Tenom, Sandakan, Tawau, Kuching and Miri.

White Rajahs

Sarawak was part of the realm of Brunei until 1841 when James Brooke was granted a sizable area of land in the southwest area of Brunei – around the city of Sarawak (now Kuching) and the nearby mining region of Bau – from Bruneian Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin II.

Willughbeia sarawacensis

At the government experiment station near Kuching, Sarawak they are grown on elevated platforms and said to start producing in less than two years.


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