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Local start-ups attend Bali summit - Borneo Bulletin Online2019-02-22
Indonesia News: Local start-ups attend Bali summit Borneo BulletinOnline... - AzizIdris -. REPRESENTATIVES of five local start-ups left for Bali, Indonesia on Wednesday to attend the ASEANRice Bowl Start-up Summ ......
Oil Palm Loggers Must Stop Cutting Near National Park2019-02-22
ENS News: MULU, Sarawak, Malaysia, February 21, 2019 (ENS) - Sarawak Deputy StateAssembly Speaker Datuk Gerawat Gala today gave official notice to the oil palm plantation giant RadiantLagoon to immediately stop clearing the forests on the fringes of Gunung Mulu...
In countries destroyed by the West, people should stop admiring the U.S. and Europe2019-02-22
Information Clearing House: By Andre VltchekFebruary 21, 2019 "InformationClearing House" - It may sound incredible, but it is true: in countries that have been damaged, even totally robbed and destroyed by the West, many people are still enamored with Europe and North...
Albrecht Becker Survived WWII to Become a Pioneering Photographer2019-02-21
Vice: This article originally appeared on VICEGermany. Albrecht Becker lived to tell the tale. In 1935, the photographer was imprisoned by the Nazis for being gay, a crime that was punishable by death in Hitler's Germany. Yet more than 60 years later, in 1996, he...
Program delves into Sikkim plant explorations2019-02-21
Times Standard: Glen Jamieson will present a program titled “PlantExploration in Sikkim” at the Feb. 28 meeting of the Eureka Chapter of the American Rhododendron Society, to be held at 7 p.m. at the Eureka Woman’s Club, 1531 J St., in Eureka. The public is welcome to...
Tourists among six killed in karaoke lounge fire2019-02-21
Asiatimes: Six people – including at least three tourists – died in a fire that erupted in an entertainment center in Malaysia on Wednesday morning. The blaze broke out around...
Australian scholarship recipient to use VR to help not-for-profits2019-02-21
Xinhua: SYDNEY, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- Australian high achiever, Jessie Hughes, will use her Churchill Fellowship to further investigate how new technologies like virtual reality (VR) can be used to benefit not-for-profit organizations, the organization announced...
Where is hot in February? The 10 best holiday destinations2019-02-21
Joy Online: February can be as bleak a concept as January in terms of the European weather. But with school half-term holidays falling in the middle of the month, parents have the opportunity to whisk their children to a destination where the sun shines in earnest. This...
How many trees make a forest? (commentary)2019-02-20
Mongabay: We can agree that deforestation continues to be a massive global problem — in 2016, the world lost over 29.7 million hectares (73.4 million acres) of tree cover, an area almost as large as Italy. That doesn’t even include the...
WATCH: A new pin-sized beetle is discovered in Borneo2019-02-20
Canoe: There could be some undiscovered creatures lurking in your backyard. Recently, a new species of beetle was found in the forests of Borneo by a group of citizen scientists. Using a leaf litter sieve, the scientists were able to discover the beetle, which was...
Family demands truth behind Korean man's mystery death in Indonesia2019-02-20
Korea Times: Family members of a Korean man who died in Indonesia have demanded a thorough investigation. gettyimagesbank By Jung Min-ho It was a mysterious death. A Korean man, 54, surnamed Oh, a veteran employee of Korea East-West Power (EWP), a subsidiary of the Korea...
Azis to lodge police report against allegedly defamatory Facebook post2019-02-20
The Star: KOTA KINABALU: Deputy Home ministerAzis Jamman will lodge a police report against Facebook page Negara Borneo Utara' and its account holder for allegedly slandering him. ......
The oil rush in the tropics2019-02-20
Gulf News: It’s almost everywhere — from pizza to ice cream, ready-made sauces to instant noodles, lipstick and packaged bread, even detergents and fuel that drives most trucks and many cars in the world. Open your cupboard and read the labels of the jars, tins and...
Indonesia caps Lunar New Year with bloody tongues, lion dances2019-02-20
This is Money: An Indonesian man seemingly in a trance uses blood from his sliced tongue to write messages from the spirits at a temple in Jakarta on February 19, 2019 during the Cap Go Meh Festival, which marks the final day of the two-week Lunar New Year festivities Eyes...