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I’m Jackson Sawatan, a reporter with Bernama since May 9th, 1994. You can reach me via e-mail at jsawatan [at] gmail [dot] com, or alternately, via the contact form in the “Contact” section of this blog.

The tagline — “Treading carefully, very very carefully, the middle path of two dynamics — blogging and journalism” — is self-explanatory. Pinakang is the traditional music of my tribe.

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