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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 ...


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.


Asian Elephants

Jumbo-sized discovery made in Malaysia

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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 ...





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New tactics in Guam rhino beetle invasion

New tactics in Guam rhino beetle invasion

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Canines and a bio-control organism come to the rescue of Guam's coconut trees in efforts to control an invasive species plaguing the island.


There are about 50,000 to 60,000 orangutans left in the wild

Orangutans struggle to survive as palm oil booms

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cinta, a baby orangutan found lost and alone in a vast Borneo palm oil plantation, now clings to a tree at a sanctuary for the great apes, staring intently at dozens of tourists.


Latest diabetes figures paint grim global picture

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1

The International Diabetes Federation (IDF) released new data today showing that a staggering 285 million people worldwide have diabetes. The latest figures from the IDF Diabetes Atlas indicate that people in low and middle-income ...


Women use their laptop computers at a wireless cafe in Beijing

PC sales in Asia-Pacific rise to 23.4 million in Q3: report

Technology / Business

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Sales of personal computers (PCs) in the Asia-Pacific region rose 17 percent from a year ago to 23.4 million units in the third quarter, an industry monitor said Tuesday.


Parents, care groups venture into children's digital limbo

Technology / Internet

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Twenty years after the international community expanded the frontiers of protection for children, child carers and officialdom are slowly venturing into uncharted territory: cyberspace.


A Pakistani passenger bus is seen passing by a bill-board displaying a mobile phone advertisement in Islamabad

Mobile phones ring in growth in emerging markets

Technology / Telecom

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Once just a simple telecommunications tool, the mobile telephone has in recent years become a driver of economic growth in emerging countries, experts said at one of the industry's biggest fairs.


Swine flu -- were people in the UK ever really that concerned?

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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

Three quarters of European people surveyed between the 30th April and 6th May 2009 said they were either not at all concerned or only a little concerned about swine flu. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC In ...


7 new luminescent mushroom species discovered

Seven new luminescent mushroom species discovered

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Seven new glow-in-the-dark mushroom species have been discovered, increasing the number of known luminescent fungi species from 64 to 71. Reported today in the journal Mycologia, the new finds include two ne ...


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.


Komodo dragon

Rediscovering the dragon's paradise lost

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 2

The world's largest living lizard species, the Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis), is vulnerable to extinction and yet little is known about its natural history. New research by a team of palaeontologists and ar ...



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