Tham Yau Kong

Guided CNN Traveller News Executive Producer, Miss Sheila Hula to Mount Kinabalu and featured in CNN April 1997.

Programme Planner and Local Expedition Leader for RAID ISC '98 and coined the name to RAID ISC '98 event the "Walkers of Borneo". The Borneo Warrior in overseas Tourism Travel Mart namely WTM & ITB, events participated by STPC.

Being an avid and skill nature photographer, Mr Tham Yau Kong photographs have been used both in international and local magazines.

Books by

Mr Albert Teo - " Journey Through Borneo ",
" Nephentes of Borneo " - Charles Clarke,
" Discovering Sabah " by Natural History Publication,
" National and Other Wild Places of Malaysia " and " Visitor's Guide - Kinabalu Park " by New Holland Publications,
" Discover Sabah " by Sabah Tourism Association,
" Travellers Digest magazine ",
" Borneo Travel News " magazine,
" Mystical Borneo " magazine,
" Action Asia " Adventure magazine and various local newspapers.

Following is a CV of achievement :-

1993	:	One of the organizer organized the " Men and machines " breakthrough to Long Pasia. It was an xpedition of 4WD convoy for the first time to drive into Long Pasia, a remote village at the border between Sabah and Kalimantan.
1994	:	Participated the Sellection Trail of the adventure race RAID GAULOISES in Kuching. After returning to Kota Kinabalu, created mountain biking tourism called " Eco Tourism On Pedals ".
1995	:	Recommending and guided WWF Malaysia Researchers to Long Pasia to research the Ulu Padas forest and today part of the forest was gazzetted for conservation.
1996	:	Guided CNN Traveller News Executive Producer Ms Sheila Hula to the summit of Mount Kinabalu and was featured in CNN Traveller News in April 1997.
1997	:	Guided the Tourism Malaysia Gold Award judges to the summit of Mount Kinabalu and won the Best Tour Package Award of the year 1996/97; the only award won for the state of Sabah.
1998	:	Programme planner and expedition leader for the " Walkers Of Borneo " expedition and achieved the longest cultural walk in Malaysia. The achievement was recorded in the Malaysia Book Of Records.
	:	One Of The Founder of Mount Kinabalu International Mountain Bike Race, a mountain biking race at the foothill of Mount Kinabalu.
1999	:	Established TYK Adventure Tours Sdn Bhd.
	:	Organizer and expedition leader for the first group of mountain bikers to circumvent Mount Kinabalu. The mountain biking achievement was recorded in the Malaysia Book Of Records.
	:	Programme planner and local Chief Cordinator for the British SENSE Borneo Mountain Biking Challenge participated by 192 British cyclists.
	:	Guided the Tourism Malaysia Gold Award judges to Rungus longhouse and Kota Belud Tamu, winning the award for the Best Tour Guide of the year 1998/99.
	:	Creator of the MIKI JUNGLE SURVIVOR; it is an adventure tour package where tourists learn to survive in the jungle.
2000	:	Programme planner and local Chief Cordinator for the British SENSE Borneo Mountain Biking Challenge participated by 120 British cyclists.
	:	Chief Guiding and cordinating the Eco Challenge Adventure Travel 2000.
2001	:	Assisting Brendan Tours, USA to package Eco Challenge Adventure Travel for 2001 and years to come.
2002	:	WETLAND SMART PARTNERSHIP for ECO TOURISM POTENTIAL - CREATED WESTON WETLAND PARADISE.