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Frenchman gives Borneo gibbons a boost in the game of love
London :: United Kingdom | about 15 hours ago
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The new pair are given several days to get used to each other A gibbon dating agency is helping to reintroduce once captive apes into the forests of southeast Asia. Unusually among apes, a male and female gibbon will mate and remain faithful to one another...
Tags: Chanee Brule, radio gibbon, Borneo, dating agency, United Kingdom, London, Environment, Gibbons, Monkey World, Lar Gibbon, Apes, Siamang, Primate, Orangutan
Bidayuh student crowned Borneo’s most beautiful
Kuching :: Malaysia | 7 days ago
Credibility Student Livonia Ricky beat 17 other finalists to be crowned the inaugural Miss Borneo Beautiful 2009. University Sarawak Campus, was thrilled with her victory as she had not expected to win. “I’m very surprised, very excited and very happy. This is just...
Tags: Malaysia, Kuching, Sarawak, Ethnic groups in Malaysia, Borneo, Miri, Bidayuh
ENVIRONMENT: Tree Plantations Are Not Forests, Women Activists Say
Buenos Aires :: Argentina | 8 days ago
Credibility Touted as "harvested forests," single-crop tree plantations are fast encroaching on the native forests and grasslands of Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, affecting the environment and the lives of local communities, rural women say...However, in view of...
Tags: Argentina, Buenos Aires, Environment, Sarawak, Borneo, States of Malaysia, Acacia, Kalimantan
MALAYSIA: State of Sarawak Forests: Gov’t Agency Stands by Report
Penang :: Malaysia | 9 days ago
Credibility For a long time, activists had believed that rainforests in the vast northwest Borneo state of Sarawak were being logged unsustainably, rapidly making way for tree (acacia) plantations, oil palm plantations, dams and secondary growth...Their position...
Tags: Sarawak Conservation Action Network, Sarawak Forestry Department, Sibu, forest reserves, Awang Tengah Ali Hassan, million hectares, Raymond Abin, permanent forest, logged activity, Limbang River, Malaysia, Penang, Environment, Sarawak, Sibu Division, Ethnic groups in Malaysia, Borneo, Bintulu, Igan River, Penan, Abdul Taib Mahmud
SUPP’s plan to recapture seats
Kuching :: Malaysia | 10 days ago
Credibility Opposition in fulfilling their election promises as a strategy to recapture the eight seats it lost in the 2006 state polls. Party president Tan Sri Dr George Chan Hong Nam said there were many examples of the Opposition not making good their election...
Tags: Malaysia, Kuching, Politics, Sarawak, Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission, Malaysian Chinese, Borneo, Miri, Opposition, Pakatan Rakyat, Sarawak United Peoples' Party, Corruption, States of Malaysia, Parliament of Malaysia, George Chan Hong Nam, Malaysian Muslims, MACC
Brunei in talks with CP to set up rice processing plant
Bandar Seri Begawan :: Brunei | 16 days ago
Credibility The Brunei government is currently in discussion with a Thai-based rice processing supplier to build a rice processing plant which is set to upgrade the country's current rice processing output. Charoen Pokphand Engineering (CPE) representatives said...
Tags: rice processing, processing plant, Brunei, Bandar Seri Begawan, Association of Asia Pacific Airlines, Thai Airways International, Thai Airways, Business Finance, Charoen Pokphand, The Brunei Times, Royal Brunei Airlines, Borneo, Sultanates, Environment
EU to share green tech with Sarawak
Miri :: Malaysia | 19 days ago
Credibility The European Union (EU) wants to transfer world-class expertise in green technology and toxic-waste treatment and pollution control from Europe to Sarawak to help develop the Sarawak Corridor of Renewable Energy (Score). Countries in the EU, which are...
Tags: Borneo Corridor, European Union-Asean Management Unit, Malaysia, Miri, Sarawak, Sarawak Corridor of Renewable Energy, Environment, Kalimantan, Sabah, Brunei, Borneo, States of Malaysia, Constitutional monarchies
Switching from destruction to protection
Jakarta :: Indonesia | 20 days ago
Credibility This is because if the embryonic schemes looking to earn potentially billions of dollars through financial credits from protecting forests are to succeed, they will need to adopt similar strategies to WWF’s. More than a thousand canals had been dug through...
Tags: Indonesia, Jakarta, Environment, Peat, Carbon finance, Fuels, Coal, Sediments, Deforestation, Emissions trading, Borneo, World Wide Fund for Nature, Climate change, Central Kalimantan, Smoulder, Carbon credit, Kyoto Protocol, Forest, Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, Carbon neutrality
German campaign to protect Malaysian rhino from extinction
Berlin :: Germany | 22 days ago
Credibility Sabah's pigmy rhinoceros is becoming something of a mascot for Malaysia's tropical forest in Germany, given the intense interest in saving the highly endangered species from extinction and with it the tropical forest. Various animal lovers' associations...
Tags: Malaysian, Germany, Berlin, Malaysia, Rhino, Rhinoceroses, Sabah, Sulu Sea, Environment, Kota Kinabalu, Javan Rhinoceros, Sumatran Rhinoceros, Borneo
Hero commando dies
Perth :: Australia | 23 days ago
Credibility Mr Sue was a member of Z Force, a special forces reconnaissance unit that operated behind enemy lines in South-East Asia. It was the predecessor to Australia's Special Air Service Regiment. Mr Sue spent months behind enemy lines in Borneo, and in his...
Tags: enemy lines, Australia, Perth, Z Force, Special Air Service, Jack Wong Sue, Special forces, Commandos, Australian Special Air Service Regiment, Human Interest, Politics, Sandakan, Borneo, War Conflict
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