Taee Village (formerly ''Munggu Babi'' (meaning, "Cold Hill") early 1900s, better known in Malay as Kampung Taee/Kampung Taie/Kampung Ta-ee) is a village in

Serian, Sarawak Serian is a town, and the capital of the ''Serian'' separated on 11 April 2015 from Samarahan Division, Sarawak, Malaysia. It is about from Kuching. Sub-district headquarters towns are Balai Ringin and Tebedu. The town is known for its duri ...

. About 60 km from

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, Kampung Taee is situated directly at the foot of Mount Sadong, Serian. The village was moved and split into two villages, Kampung Taee and Kampung Plaman Nyabet. The village had a population of about 2200 people, the majority being

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, as well as

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, Malay,

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. The language used there is

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Education

Two schools were built near the

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. SK St John, Taee, was established in the 1930s as the primary school in the village and SMK Taee (also known as SMK Batu Ajung) was built a few kilometres from the village and situated at the foot of Mount Sadong in the 1980s for students to further their education. Before SMK Taee was established, most students had to attend other secondary schools such as

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School (now known as Kolej Tun Abdul Razak/ SMK Tun Abdul Razak) while others furthered their study in

at schools such as SMK St. Thomas.

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