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The British did discuss it with the local people, but declared Sarawak a crown colony on 1 July 1946 anyway, with support from British officers and european residents. [4] The idea of anti-colonialism started when the newspaper Fajar Sarawak was first published. The idea was later carried on by the newspaper Utusan Sarawak. [5]
Originally formed by teachers in 1945, the Sarawak Tribune was the second English-language daily in Sarawak and was, prior to its suspension, the state's oldest and largest operating state daily, with over 400 employees throughout the state and 70 editorial staff in Kuching. The daily was regarded as a legacy of British colonial Sarawak.
[2]: 27 In 1911, Sarawak Museum Journal was established, which took off more materials from Sarawak Gazette. [2]: 27 Sarawak Gazette resumed two weekly publishing from 1908 until 1921; when after that it went back to monthly publishing until 1941. A Malay section was added to the September until December issues of 1941 editions of Sarawak Gazette.
Berita Harian – Malaysia (including Georgetown (the state capital of Penang Island), Johor Bahru and Johor Bahru District)'s nationwide Malaysian Malay-language oldest daily newspaper for Malaysian Malays (includes Johorean Malay and Penangite Malay) community was officially first published based in Singapore and first published as Berita Harian on 1 July 1957.
The cession has sparked nationalism among Malay intellectuals. They started the anti-cession movement with their main centre of operation in Sibu and Kuching.Meanwhile, the majority of Chinese supported the cession because the British would bring more economic benefits to Sarawak and illegal gambling and the opium trade would be banned under British rule which would also benefit the economy.
Subsequently, Sarawak Native Alliance consisting of Parti Negara Sarawak (PANAS), BARJASA party, and Parti Pesaka Sarawak (PESAKA) was formed in order to challenge Ningkan's leadership. [5] The land bill was subsequently withdrawn and PESAKA reaffirmed its standing with SNAP while accused BARJASA for splitting Iban's unity amongst SNAP and PESAKA.
TV Sarawak (TVS) opened in 2020 as Malaysia's first regional TV station (eponymously from Sarawak); albeit not the first in the Sarawak history as back in the April 1998, NTV7 was launched by Sarawakian businessman, Mohd Effendi Norwawi under the entity of Natseven TV Sdn Bhd, before acquired by Media Prima Berhad in 2005.
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