Venue: Kingwood Hotel, No.12, Lorong Lanang 4, 96000 Sibu, Sarawak, Malaysia, Tel: 60-84-335888
 

As Sibu's largest and newest hotel, Kingwood affords travelers a pleasurable stay with its idyllic view of the mighty Rejang River. Its strategic location adds to its subtle ambience and understated style that is uniquely Kingwood.

The hotel's 168 well-appointed rooms are elegantly furnished and handsomely equipped with modern amenities that provide the comfort and convenience of a first class hotel. All rooms are fully equipped with a touch-sensitive bedside panel, international direct dialing telephone, hairdryer, piped-in music system, multi-channel color television and mini-bar facilities.

Sibu Info 
 

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Welcome to Sibu, a bustling and rapidly-growing town located in the heart of Sarawak, Malaysia. Located at Latitude 2 degrees 19' North and Longitude 111 degrees 15' East at the confluence of Rejang and Igan rivers, Sibu is some 60 miles from the South China Sea.

The 200,000+ population comprises of a colorful mix of bumiputras or ethnic tribes such as the Ibans, Melanaus, Malays and Orang Ulus (highlanders) living in perfect harmony with the various Chinese dialect groups, majority of whom are the Foochows, Hokkiens, Cantonese, Hakkas, Hing Huas and Teochews. Their traditional background complements and supplements each other like a colorful quilt, each unique in their own ways. Yet, when combined together, they effortlessly turn into a rainbow in its full splendor. Just like the many tributaries that criss-cross the State of Sarawak, the people of Sibu, along with the rest of the State's move harmoniously in one direction.

In what has been described as a "Confluence of River" by the Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri (Dr) Haji Abdul Taib Bin Mahmud, widely acknowledged as the unifying force of all the different races, the people blends into one another as they flow towards the sea. Signs of such racial harmony can be seen every day in Sibu. From the simple coffee shops where they chat over a steaming cup of coffee to the offices where they work as colleagues to the nightspots where yuppies hang out and playgrounds where children converge, bumiputras and Chinese live, work and play hand-in-hand. Embracing each other's culture and religion, visitors are forever awed by the bountiful sights of people from different races and dialect groups, co-existing in such harmony.

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From its agrarian past, Sibu has now developed into a modern town with an increasingly diversified economy. While not forgetting its natural resources based economy, which has served the town tremendously for the past century, the government has helped develop manufacturing, shipbuilding, infrastructure, tourism, the services sector, and now the K-economy, as Sibu's main economic activities. In short, though its economy is anchored in timber, it is diversified in growth.