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An oil palm plantation covers a swath of land where a forest once stood in the Miri interior

Malaysia urged to force big oil to produce biofuel

Technology / Energy

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Malaysia must force major oil firms to produce biofuel if the once-vaunted biodiesel industry is to have any future, industry experts told a conference Thursday.


In Brief: Malaysia WiMax spectrum bids stumble

Technology / Telecom

created Jul 19, 2006 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Malaysia's telecom sector remained in a lurch Wednesday following the cancellation of the nation's first wireless broadband licensing tender.


Monkey malaria widespread in humans and potentially fatal

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jan 15, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A potentially fatal species of malaria is being commonly misdiagnosed as a more benign form of the disease, thereby putting lives at risk, according to research funded by the Wellcome Trust and the University Malaysia Sarawak.


Tiger rescue highlights poaching threat in Malaysia

Tiger rescue highlights poaching threat in Malaysia

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A five-year-old male Tiger was freed from a poacher’s snare on Sunday after it was found by WWF’s Wildlife Protection Unit (WPU) just off a highway that cuts through the Belum-Temengor forest ...


Asian Elephants

Jumbo-sized discovery made in Malaysia

Biology /

created Jan 14, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New data released today by the Wildlife Conservation Society and Malaysia's Department of Wildlife and National Parks (DWNP) reveals that a population of endangered Asian elephants living in a Malaysian park ...


Malaysian wildlife authorities have rescued a five-year old Malayan tiger, badly injured in a snare set up by poachers

Malaysian officials save endangered Malayan tiger

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Malaysian wildlife authorities rescued a five-year old Malayan tiger, badly injured in a snare set up by poachers near the country's jungle border with Thailand, officials said Monday.


Government's reliance on free market economics makes essential drug prices too high for the poor

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Mar 27, 2007 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Research in Malaysia, published in the latest PLoS Medicine, has established that drugs considered essential for adequate health care are often priced beyond the reach of the poorer members of society. It would cost, for ex ...


Eight Asian telecoms companies have formed a consortium to build an undersea cable system to link 10 regional hubs

Eight carriers in undersea Asia cable project

Technology / Telecom

created May 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Eight Asian telecoms companies have formed a consortium to build an undersea cable system to link 10 regional hubs, Philippine Long Distance Telephone (PDLT) said Wednesday.


A male flanged orangutan hangs from a tree in Malaysian Borneo's Sabah State

Malaysia tracks orangutans with implants

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Malaysian wildlife authorities are using electronic implants to keep track of orangutans in a bid to protect the endangered apes after they are freed into the wild, an official said Tuesday.


Bats without borders: World's largest bats need international protection

Biology / Ecology

created Aug 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Without at least a temporary reprieve from hunting, the world's largest species of fruit bat, Pteropus vampyrus or the "large flying fox", could be driven to extinction in Peninsular Malaysia at the current hunting rate, ...


Briefs: Siemens supports Infineon's Malaysia plant

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created Dec 09, 2005 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Siemens said Friday it will provide the information-technology infrastructure for Infineon Technologies' semiconductor factory in Malaysia.


New and deadly viruses passed through sweet food and domestic animals

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Apr 03, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (22) | comments 4

Nipah virus is a new and deadly brain and lung disease that emerged from Singapore and Malaysia ten years ago. It is now spreading into rural India and Bangladesh killing up to three-quarters of the people who become infected ...


New research confirms potential deadly nature of emerging new monkey malaria species in humans

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers in Malaysia have identified key laboratory and clinical features of an emerging new form of malaria infection. The research, funded by the Wellcome Trust, confirms the potentially deadly nature of the disease.


Vodafone partners with Telekom Malaysia

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created Jan 25, 2006 | popularity 1.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Vodafone Wednesday signed a partnership agreement with Telekom Malaysia, including three of its subsidiaries.


First picture of wild Borneo rhino taken

Biology /

created Jun 15, 2006 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (11) | comments 0

The World Wildlife Fund says the first-ever picture of a rhino in the wild on the island of Borneo has been taken using a motion-triggered camera trap.