Miri, Malaysia

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.

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

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.