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Saturday | The Star Online

Penan girls' rape probe goes nowhere

MIRI: The saga surrounding the sexual abuse of Penan girls and women by timber workers in logging concession areas in northern Sarawak has reached a dead end.

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Thu Nov 12, 2009

Malaysian National News Agency

Sarawak Identifies 43 Illegal Houses Of Worship

The state government has identified 43 houses of worship which are built illegally on government land, the State Legislative Assembly was told Thursday.

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Tue Nov 10, 2009

The Star Online

KL slams ban on advert

MIRI: The British Government's ban on a Malaysian palm oil advertisement because of native land disputes and alleged victimisation of the Penans in Sarawak by logging and palm oil giants 'is unfair'. Deputy International Trade and Industry Minister Datuk Jacob Sagan said the federal and state authorities had put in great effort to not only protect ...

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Sun Nov 08, 2009

The Star Online

Borneo natives in stand-off with oil-palm giant

MIRI: A stand-off between a group of more than 500 Kenyah minority natives and an oil-palm giant over a land-dispute in Long Koyan settlement in the Belaga district in central Sarawak has reached a boiling point.

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Fri Nov 06, 2009

Business Times

Glenealy expects demand to rise across major markets

Glenealy Plantations Bhd is optimistic it will do better in the current year ending June 30 2010 thanks to higher crude palm oil production and stable CPO prices.

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Wed Nov 04, 2009

The Star Online

No jobs for Bakun men

BELAGA: Natives at the Bakun Dam area near here are still finding it difficult to find jobs despite the opening up of more than 50,000ha of oil palm estates.

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Mon Nov 02, 2009

New Straits Times

New economic model includes the rural people as well

MIRI: So long as there is willingness to move out from their traditional economic cocoon, rural folks should not feel alienated from Prime Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Najib Tun Razak's new economic model.

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Sat Oct 31, 2009

The Star Online

Miti ready to expand mandatory standards to other imports

MIRI: The Ministry of International Trade and Industry is prepared to impose mandatory standards on other products other than imported iron and steel to avoid the inflow of low-quality goods into the country.

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Thu Oct 29, 2009

The Star Online

Indonesians found dead on highway

MIRI: Police here are probing the circumstances surrounding the death of two young Indonesian farm-workers whose bodies were found along KM15 of the Miri-Bintulu second coastal highway.

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Tue Oct 27, 2009

The Star Online

Berawan taboos & beliefs

The Loagan Bunut Lake, though beautiful, is haunted, claims the Berawan tribe. Legends and taboos still affect the everyday life of many Berawan people living around the Loagan Bunut Lake in Baram, Miri, Sarawak.

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Sun Oct 25, 2009

BruDirect

First Oz Education Exhibition In Belait

The Australian government has recorded an annual average of 700 Bruneians enrolments in Australian educational institutions.

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Fri Oct 23, 2009

BruDirect

BMC Seeks OK To Export To Malaysia

Food processor BMC Food Industries Sdn Bhd is looking to send its products across the border to nearby Malaysian cities next year, its factory manager told The Brunei Times yesterday.

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Thu Oct 22, 2009

Malaysian National News Agency

Vast Difference In Purchase Price Of ILP Equipment, Says Auditor-general

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 19 -- A pole platform was supplied by a company to the Miri Industrial Training Institute in Sarawak at a cost of RM30,510 while similar equipment was bought by the ILP in Sandakan and Kepala Batas for RM1,600 and RM1,240, respectively, according to the auditor-general. The Auditor-General's Report of 2008 says the prices, besides ...

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Tue Oct 20, 2009

New Straits Times

Parang-wielding youths hack man to death in restaurant

MIRI: A man was hacked to death while his son was seriously injured when they were set upon by a group of parang-wielding youths at a restaurant in Pujut here last night.

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Mon Oct 19, 2009

E-borneo.com

Mysterious Borneo adds attraction to international yachting challenge

MIRI : The name Borneo will lure the yachting community to participate in the Borneo International Yachting Challenge .a oeBorneo has a mystical and adventurous image to the outside world particularly westerners.

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Sat Oct 17, 2009

BruDirect

Remove Tinted Glasses, Malaysian Motorists Told

Malaysian drivers crossing the border into Brunei have been urged to remove tinted glasses on their cars to abide by the Sultanate's traffic rules and regulations.

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Thu Oct 15, 2009

Tajikistan News.Net

Malaysia's Miri Indian Association turns 70

Tajikistan News.Net Thursday 15th October, 2009 Deepavali this year has special significance for the Indian community settled in this eastern state of Malaysia as the Miri Indian Association is now 70 years old.

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Tue Oct 13, 2009

BruDirect

Members Invited To IET's Annual General Meeting

The Institution of Engineering and Technology Brunei Darussalam Network will be holding its 12th Annual General Meeting on October 16 at 7pm to elect its new office-bearers. The meeting will be held at the Sheraton Utama Hotel and all IET members in the country are invited.

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Sun Oct 11, 2009

New Straits Times

Athletics / Malaysian Open: Middle distance is Jironi's domain

JIRONI Riduan cemented his place as the No 1 middle distance runner in the country with victory in the 800 metres at the Malaysian Open Athletics Championships in Bukit Jalil yesterday.

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Fri Oct 09, 2009

New Straits Times

No drastic retrenchment by Shell Miri

MIRI, Fri: Sarawak Deputy Chief Minister Tan Sri Dr George Chan today dismissed talk that over 600 Shell exploration and production staff here, would be retrenched simultaneously, following the company''s downsizing exercise.

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