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BACK NEXT Summer 2008 Issue 45 Letter from the Editor Grand Lodge News News and Views On The Level International News Beyond the Craft Perambulating the Lodge Masonic Dining and Celebration Interview: The Grand Chancellor The Orator Walking the Way of Saint James Abd el-Kader: Algerian Nationalist and Freemason Province of Cambridgeshire Library & Museum Brother Lightfoote's Journal Review: Committed to the Flames Review: The Mythology of Secret Societies Review: The Dawn of Astrology Letters to the Editor Internet Library & Museum of Freemasonry Grand Lodge Quarterly Communication Convocation of Supreme Grand Chapter RMBI Masonic Samaritan Fund Grand Charity RMTGB Canon Richard Tydeman: Looking unto the Rock Copyright 1997-2008 Grand Lodge Publications Ltd Designed and Maintained by: Cyberpoint Limited

FREEMASONRY TODAY East and Central Asia, Singapore, Malaysia Masonic Support in Sabah During my gap year travels I wanted to visit Sabah, which along with Sarawak, is part of Borneo; together both comprise eastern Malaysia. I wished to see the animal sanctuaries there - perhaps even work in one of them. Unfortunately, not long before I left, my college friend decided not to go. So I prepared to travel by myself. My father contacted Joseph Chow, a Past Master of Lodge Kinabalu, No. 7047, in Kota Kinabalu, the capital of Sabah, to see if he could help me meet some local people my own age. Upon arriving at Kota Kinbalu, I telephoned him ... Light of Siam Lodge No. 9791 The overwhelming awfulness was that we knew nothing. You could have been 500 yards from people consumed by the water and see and hear nothing. Forget the image of a cresting wave. The tide just went out and came in. Just very far and very fast. The wave was maybe six inches high, but 100 miles long – that’s a lot of water. The strange thing is the water was black with debris. Most damage was caused by the third wave ... Freemasonry in Borneo Prior to my departure for North Borneo in the summer of 1997, I had already decided that I would endeavour to make masonic contact, assuming that such links would meet the approval of our own Grand Lodge. There were no problems, as I soon learned that the District of the Eastern Archipelago, with contact headquarters in both Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, was not only fraternally connected with England but was well known and respected. This District covers Singapore and Malaysia, the latter comprising Peninsular Malaysia (formerly Malaya), and eastern Malaysia ...   East and Central Asia © Grand Lodge Publications Ltd 1997-2008