Sarawak
(2000 pop. 2 million). Situated in the northwest coast of the island of Borneo, Sarawak is the largest state in Malaysia and has a land area of 124,449 square kilometers. Its population is div...
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Sarawak, Malaysia (dpa) - The 10th World Rain Forest Music
Festival got under way in Sarawak on the island of Borneo Friday with
19 bands participating from 17 countries.
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Sarawak, Malaysia (dpa) - Bands from around the world are
gathering in Sarawak for the Rain Forest World Music Festival, which
kicks off Friday on the island of Borneo.
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The chief minister of Malaysia's Sarawak State threatened Friday
to take legal action to clear his name over allegations he received
1.1. billion yen in kickbacks from Japanese shipping compa...
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Four members of a Borneo tribe are accused of torching a logging camp in a region home to one of the world's oldest rain forests, officials said Friday.The arrests illustrate frustrations among nat...
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Sarawak, Malaysia (dpa) - Nine village chiefs from one of the last
nomadic tribes in Malaysia showed up at the World Rain Forest Music
Festival in Sarawak over the weekend, ...
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A teacher who forced nearly 140 teenage girls to squat in a fish pond as a punishment for throwing sanitary pads into toilet bowls has been reprimanded but will keep her job, an official said Thurs...
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The chief minister of Malaysia's Sarawak state is suing an
opposition party and two media organizations over allegations he
received kickbacks from Japanese shipping firms, the Star newspaper...
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(EDS: ADDS COMMENTS FROM TAIB'S AIDE CONFIRMING SUIT)
The chief minister of Malaysia's Sarawak state is suing an
opposition party and two media organizations over allegations he
received kic...
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Nine Japanese shipping companies, which transport lumber from
Sarawak, Malaysia, allegedly failed to report some 1.1 billion yen of
income in total during a period of up to seven years throug...
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HONG KONG, Jan 18 (Reuters) - A potentially fatal type of
malaria is being commonly misdiagnosed as a more benign form of
the disease, putting people at risk, researchers in Malaysia
say. Malaria ...
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