https://www.scmp.com/rss/501422/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com It was sometime in September 1998 when the first reports of a mystery disease killing pigs and humans began to surface from an intensively managed pig farm in Perak, a state in the northwest of Peninsular Malaysia. Located in the district of Tambun, the infected farm – part of a larger pig-farming area – housed some 30,000 pigs. And spread among the farms in this area were more than 100 hectares of orchards, cultivated for additional income. According to the local hunters and orchard workers... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3217891/deadly-virus-malaysia-shows-how-next-covid-19-pandemic-could-be-just-around-corner?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3217891/deadly-virus-malaysia-shows-how-next-covid-19-pandemic-could-be-just-around-corner?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 22 Apr 2023 23:45:17 +0000 More than 70 years after the so-called White Rajahs from England left Sarawak, sixth-generation descendant Jason Brooke is working to revive local interest in the complicated history of his family’s century of rule over what is now a Malaysian state on the island of Borneo. The Brookes are seen as having built Sarawak from a territory of disparate ethnic communities into a modern state, with its own government, constitution, flag and currency. Under their leadership, Sarawak expanded from... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/lifestyle-culture/article/3044587/white-rajah-returns-malaysias-sarawak-time-serve?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/lifestyle-culture/article/3044587/white-rajah-returns-malaysias-sarawak-time-serve?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 05 Jan 2020 05:15:07 +0000 Kuala Lumpur’s downtown Petaling Street area, the landing point of many Cantonese and Hakka settlers from China during the tin rush of the 1800s, has long been popular among tourists for its namesake market, Chinese and Indian temples, hawker food, and budget hostels. For the Malaysian city’s denizens, however, the area has been plagued by the impression that it is seedy and unsafe, and that it has lost its local character due to an influx of immigrant workers. Valid or not, this perception may... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/society/article/3019399/petaling-street-chinatown-malaysias-capital-bets-its-heritage?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/society/article/3019399/petaling-street-chinatown-malaysias-capital-bets-its-heritage?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 21 Jul 2019 09:15:10 +0000