Near the Damai beach resort is the Damai Cultural Village showing the various cultural and racial groups within Malaysia and how they live. There is a show that runs for about an hour that you need to synchronise your visit with. If you feel lucky you can buy into the local lottery called 4D . The draw is made 3 times per week with the results published in the newspapers. I found quite poor.
Television movies are rare and like the movies at the cinema heavily cut for censuring.
The local english newspaper is the Borneo Post , it is published every day and reports on a good selection of local happenings. The main problem is that the shops are closed for about 4 days and there is a general slow down a few days on either side of that. The good thing is that you can experience the main Chinese celebration. During the evenings leading up and following the New Year there is a relatively regular firework display. Unfortunately the government seems to be outlawed many fireworks and the result is the spectacle is not nearly as great as in the past.