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.: ShaolinTiger - Kung-Fu Geekery :. (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
After the Sandakan Town Tour we headed to the airport and flew over to KK. Shortly after landing we headed on over to the Monsopiad Cultural Village, which was an interesting experience to say the least. They say you haven't seen Sabah if you haven't been to the Monsopiad village! We arrived just in time to catch [...] Read the full post at shaolintiger.com.
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Journey with Water Learner (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
WE ARE BACK!! It was a short trip for us to Kota Kinabalu with two good friends of ours. At the beginning of the year, we had been planning on a two-week trip to Tasmania with them and another couple of friends from US. Due to some clashes in the dates with work and work VISA application of one of them, that trip had to be shelved. So this 3D2N trip to Shangri-La's Tanjong Aru Resort in Kota...
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Orangutan Outreach (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Wednesday, October 28, 2009 Source: Daily Express, East Malaysia http://www.dailyexpress.com.my/news.cfm'NewsID=68450 Kota Kinabalu: State Tourism, Culture and Environment Minister Datuk Masidi Manjun said the greatest challenge in the effort to conserve the forests is not the environment but managing human greed. He said laws alone are insufficient to ensure all conservation efforts would be...
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Kuala Lumpur City (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Cebu Pacific (CEB), Asia’s third largest low-cost carrier, offers as much as 50% off fares for flights from Manila to Hong Kong, Kota Kinabalu and ...
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Kuala Lumpur City (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Cebu Pacific offers as much as 50 percent off the lowest possible year-round fares for flights from Manila to Hong Kong, Kota Kinabalu and Kuala ...
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Rich Portelli and the Grand Adventure (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
There were no cancellations for Sipadan - maybe next time! We're in Kota Kinabalu now, off to Singapore tomorrow (Thu 29th) for five days and then Aussie land. Haven't done a great deal in KK. Hannah's gone off island exploring with a lass she befriended in Phuket so peace and quiet at least for a few hours!
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AirTransportNews.aero (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Cebu Pacific (CEB) offers as much as 50% off the lowest possible year-round fares for flights from Manila to Hong Kong, Kota Kinabalu and Kuala Lumpur, as well as from Clark and Cebu to Hong...
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Orangutan Outreach (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
KOTA KINABALU: Sabah is hoping to get more technical and financial assistance from foreign governments, non-governmental orga-nisations and companies to further improve environmental and forest conservation efforts in the state. “Of course we would like our friends from the US and European Council to come and help conserve the forests,” said Chief Minister Datuk Musa Aman. He [...]...
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CommonDreams.org Headlines (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
by Beh Lih Yi KOTA KINABALU, Malaysia - 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. She is one of the casualties of the boom in palm oil -- used extensively for biofuel and processed food like margarine -- which has seen swathes of jungle felled in Borneo, an...
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Orangutan Outreach (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Sabah's Wildlife To Go On US TV KOTA KINABALU, Oct 21 (Bernama) -- Sabah's wildlife is to be featured in American television wildlife advocate Jack Hanna's show "Into The Wild." The eight member crew, including Hanna and his wife Suzi and youngest daughter Julie, would be filming the orang utan, pygmy elephants and sun bears in the [...]
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KTemoc Konsiders ........ (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
In an interview with Malaysiakini in Kota Kinabalu today, Zaid Ibrahim said "I am a Pakatan man and not so much with PKR although I had to join a component party to be in the opposition alliance." Should we read something in Zaid’s rather pointed declaration? Reference: Malaysiakini Zaid outlines Pakatan blueprint for change
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
... and many of these populations are not connected any more," he told the conference near Kota Kinabalu, the capital of Sabah.An aerial survey carried out by Hutan and wildlife authorities in eastern Sabah last year revealed some 1,000 orangutan treetop "nests" located in 100 small patches of forest completely surrounded by palm oil plantations.Isolated from each other, the tiny communities...
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Journey with Water Learner (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Hey peeps, I took my last tab of anti-biotics yesterday night before I slept and actually felt like hell as I struggled to slept (thinking that it's going to get worse).*I had an appointment this morning with my doctor to collect a sample of my blood and urine to do a more complete test for dengue and malaria (Kota Kinabalu is prone to these, you see). *The strange thing is, although the last...
