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Fallen heads named a town: The many origins of Bintulu’s name (Travelogue Day 5)
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Fallen heads named a town: The many origins of Bintulu’s name (Travelogue Day 5)
By Marlynda Meraw BINTULU, Feb 22: Most towns grow into their names. Bintulu, it seems, had to live one down. What is today a bustling port city in central Sarawak carries a name rooted in something far darker: the severed heads of the dead that were cast into the river. History has a way of softening such things, and the few who pass through Bintulu today could hardly guess that the word on every road sign and welcome banner had once described …
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