KUCHING, Malaysia/SINGAPORE -- Once a quiet riverside town in Borneo, Kuching takes its name from the Malay word for cat, a moniker that emerged when the first Sarawak rajah, James Brooke, arrived in the 1840s.
KUCHING, Malaysia/SINGAPORE -- Once a quiet riverside town in Borneo, Kuching takes its name from the Malay word for cat, a moniker that emerged when the first Sarawak rajah, James Brooke, arrived in the 1840s.