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The school in Bata Puteh

Home Stay in Malaysian Borneo

We visited a school in a small Muslim village and spent the night with a local family.

Brunei / Indonesia / Malaysia MaryLou Driedger
The golf course in Kota Kinabula was a feast for the senses.

Golfing in Borneo- A Sensory Experience

Golfing in Kota Kinabula was a feast for the senses.

Brunei / Indonesia / Malaysia MaryLou Driedger
Omar Ali Saifuddien Mosque

The Extraordinary Sultanate of Brunei

It is possible not to recognize the uniqueness of a destination. I might have continued to overlo...

Brunei Leslie Nevison
The Dutchman of Borneo

Proboscis Monkeys: The Dutchman of Borneo

A Shocking Sight! Deep within the forests of Borneo, along a route Chinese traders used to obtain...

Brunei / Indonesia / Malaysia Ee Lin Wan
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Union Jack still flies at Britain's last military outpost in Asia

BRITISH ARMY GARRISON, Brunei, July 28, 2006 - The Union Jack hangs limp in the muggy tropical ai...

Brunei / Nepal AFP/Ian Timberlake
Longhouse on the Temburong River

Temburong: Humungle In The Jungle

Geographical oddities always hold a peculiar fascination. Few are more fascinating than Temburong...

Brunei Graham Simmons
The Crystal Arch, Jerudong Park

Joys Of Jerudong

It's 6:15 pm on a Tuesday evening, and the world's first free amusement park, at Jerudong on the ...

Brunei Graham Simmons
An overview of Kampung Ayer (water village) where houses sit on wooden stilts in Brunei.

Brunei on the Web

* * * The Government Website of Brunei . This site is the official portal for Brunei. Here, you w...

Brunei ThingsAsian
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Brunei, a nation-state of emergency, luxury and fantasy

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Feb 29, 2004 - It seems extraordinary bordering on the bizarre that one of t...

Brunei AFP/Karl Malakunas
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Borneo's Bakun dam

Borneo mega-dams proposal raises fears for tribes, wildlife...

Brunei / Indonesia / Malaysia AFP/Sarah Stewart
Orang Utans at the Sepilok Rehabilitation Center

Orang Utan: The Wild-man of Borneo

The Man of the Jungle It is one of the largest of tree-dwelling mammals and shares 96.4 % of the ...

Brunei / Indonesia / Malaysia Ee Lin Wan
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SEA-worthy: Some Recent Southeast Asian Literature

When one thinks of famous Southeast Asian writers, one thinks of...nobody. Nada. Not exactly true...

Brunei / Vietnam / Myanmar Kenneth Champeon

Tales of A Female Nomad

Title: Tales of A Female Nomad . Living at Large in the World. Author: Rita Golden Gelman. Publis...

Brunei / Indonesia / Malaysia ThingsAsian Booklist

Saving Borneo's Orangutans

* * * Asia's vanishing forests are home to many endangered species who may not survive the centur...

Brunei / Indonesia / Malaysia AFP/Barry Neild
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Pulau Tiga

Not many have heard of this island before although it was more than a hundred years old. A tiny p...

Brunei / Indonesia / Malaysia Audrey Lim
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Hanging Tough: The People of the Forest

For years, the orangutans and the people of the forest have been running out of time. We continue...

Brunei / Indonesia / Malaysia Christina Gosnell
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Paradise Interrupted

December 31th, 2004 - Winter has come to Hong Kong, and I'm looking out over the Pearl River Delt...

Brunei / Myanmar Joshua Samuel Brown
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Choosing a Quality Language Program

Opportunities for overseas and exchange programs abound, but to find quality instruction, you'll ...

Brunei / Vietnam / Myanmar Dawn Stanton
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Orang-utans -- the "wise men" of the forest

The big red primate of the forests of Borneo and Sumatra, the orang-utan, is a kind of wise man a...

Brunei / Indonesia / Malaysia AFP
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