Walking Around Miri

Established in 1999, Curtin University of Technology is the first international branch campus of Western Austrialia's Curtin University of Technology at the invitation of the Sarawak State Government to fulfill the need for a tertiary institution of international caliber to match Miri's growth.

Shinonome (東雲 ”Daybreak”) was the sixth of twenty-four Fubuki-class destroyers, built for the Imperial Japanese Navy following World War I. It had exploded and sank with all hands off the coast of Miri.

The first air conditioned shopping complex building in Miri, built up to more than 10 stories high, also a first.

And so things slowly improved. By 1921 or thereabouts, there were about 40 shophouses in Miri.