Miri Night Street Market at Brooke Road, is proposed by the Miri Council to be implemented some time around the end of February or early March 2018 that offers a trading space for night market vendors, traders, farmers, artists, craftspersons for trading of their goods or services at night.
'Commercial shipping' utilizing Miri as a port goes back to as early as when Miri was merely a fishing village. Being the site of the first discovery of oil in Borneo in 1910 quickened the business and pace and progress of Miri, establishing it an important and leading port for the majority of the 20th century in the region for oil and then timber industries.
The Brighton is Miri's first luxury condominium, located at Brighton next to the Parkcity Everly hotel, overlooking the Miri River and offering panaromic views of the South China Sea and its beautiful seaside sunsets.
Miri River Ferry Point landing ramp photo, taken in 2007 - before the land reclaimation to become what is now known as Marina Bay. See historical photos of this area here.
Opened 2017, this food center known as Container City is as its name implies - shipping container used as food stall blocks located in a open seating food center, meshing together the "Street Food Container" style concept with traditional open-air food centers.
Also known as "America Road", "Reversed Road", "Opposite Driving Road" by the locals, the road where we drive on the left instead of the right, and is rightly a fairly controversial subject of contention regarding its road planning.
Bumiko Residential Area is a residential housing area located along Miri-Bintulu Road and Medical Store Road. This residential area was built in the early 1980s.
On August 1st, 1960, the Miri General Hospital, which had for long been operated by the oil company with financial assistance from the government, was handed over to the government; with it went the Miri Ferry that connects between the peninsular and town - and the hospital -, all the concession land on the Miri Peninsula south of the Miri Golf Course, and all the houses, roads and utility services within that area.
'Commercial shipping' utilizing Miri as a port goes back to as early as when Miri was merely a fishing village. Being the site of the first discovery of oil in Borneo in 1910 quickened the business and pace and progress of Miri, establishing it an important and leading port for the majority of the 20th century in the region for oil and then timber industries.
The Brighton is Miri's first luxury condominium, located at Brighton next to the Parkcity Everly hotel, overlooking the Miri River and offering panaromic views of the South China Sea and its beautiful seaside sunsets.
Opened 2017, this food center known as Container City is as its name implies - shipping container used as food stall blocks located in a open seating food center, meshing together the "Street Food Container" style concept with traditional open-air food centers.
Also known as "America Road", "Reversed Road", "Opposite Driving Road" by the locals, the road where we drive on the left instead of the right, and is rightly a fairly controversial subject of contention regarding its road planning.
Miri was bombed by U.S. B24 Bombers during World War II. Some video footage of the bombing.
A video US Navy Patrol Torpedo Boats Attack Coastal Oil Installations at Miri, Sarawak during WW2 to disrupt oil supplies to Japan at the time.
The Sikh Temple in Miri has stood on the very same location since the times of Brooke. One of only two in Sarawak.
Bicycling in and around Miri, the majority of the Miri commercial areas could be reached by just bicycles.
On August 1st, 1960, the Miri General Hospital, which had for long been operated by the oil company with financial assistance from the government, was handed over to the government; with it went the Miri Ferry that connects between the peninsular and town - and the hospital -, all the concession land on the Miri Peninsula south of the Miri Golf Course, and all the houses, roads and utility services within that area.