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World Service,05 Aug 1999,4 mins

The Telephone

My Century

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Kayan Nyelang who lives in Kapit, a town on the Rejang river in Sarawak, East Malaysia, explains how life has been transformed since the arrival of the telephone in his remote part of the country.

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