Malaysia Green News

More than 400 longhouse chiefs and members of the non-governmental organisations from the Julau and Pakan districts will be enlisted to join in an environmental conservation effort. The invitation was extended by the Rakan Alam organisation of the Julau parliamentary...

Hydro-electric dam projects and biofuel-plantation projects that uproot tribal folks from their ancestral homes must be de-listed from their ''green energy'' tags and classified as ''people-destructive and eco-unfriendly'' projects, said the latest report from Survival International, a...

Citing "People First, Performance Now", the Sabah state government has announced the scrapping of a controversial gigantic water treatment plant in Maang, Kota Kinabalu. However, the related and even more controversial RM 2.8 billion Kaiduan project will still proceed as...

A new 300MW gas-powered plant is set to give Sabah�s critical energy sector a boost. The new plant will be fully operational by 2013, with its company Kimanis Power Sdn Bhd selling the power to Sabah Electricity Sdn Bhd. The...

All tourism centres under Sabah government agencies will be barred from using plastic bags in an effort to conserve the environment. State Tourism, Culture and Environment Minister Datuk Masidi Manjun said the ruling was expected to be enforced by early...

The north-eastern state of Terengganu has been the worst hit so far, with almost 7,500 people displaced. Other states badly affected by the rising water levels are neighbouring Kelantan, Perak and Kedah, as well as Pahang state in the centre...

More lights winked out in Sabah after the state�s electricity shortage became even more critical when power tripped unexpectedly at several stations. This has triggered another round of load shedding, drastically affecting homes and businesses already living with regular brownouts....

A delegation of Malaysian artistes and members of the Green industry will attend the launch of Culture Futures in Copenhagen, Denmark, in conjunction with the United Nations Summit for Climate Change (COP 15). Zainal Abidin and his band, and poet-cum-lawyer...

Tunnel-building works for RM530mil Package 1 of the centralised sewerage system in Kuching are progressing on schedule. State Sewerage Services Depart­ment director Lau Hieng Ung said tunnelling of a proposed 7.7km trunk sewer was 12% complete. He said the department...