The swirl of rumour, assertion and denials which has long surrounded Malaysia's Bakun Dam continues despite Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammed's late-1997 announcement of the project's indefinite

The Panjim bench of the Mumbai High Court has given several directions to the state government of Goa to control malaria in the state. The bench comprising of Justice R M Lodha and Justice R K

A US-based Malaysian scientist says the country's tropical forests have many medicinal plants that may be a main source of income for Malaysia. According to Robert K Lee, a professor at the

The government has declared a state of emergency in Sarawak situated on the Island of Borneo, due to the hazardous level of smog that has enveloped the nation. The smog throughout the country has

a number of international organisations are working towards beefing up food security by creating awareness among consumers. "All future agricultural research, policies and trade opportunities must

environmentalists and Sarawak residents recently suffered a setback in the legal battle over the Bakun hydroelectric dam project when Malaysia's appeals court recently overruled a High Court

The brouhaha over the Bakun hydroelectric project in Malaysia continues. Recently, the Bakun Region People's Committee (BRPC) met to discuss the various

Malaysia's International Centre for Appli

Successful local involvement in a Malaysian park throws up an answer to heavyweight World Bank terms and plans for ecodevelopment

We present results of an empirical investigation and comparison of housing supply in three rapidly growing countries: Malaysia, Thailand, and Korea. These countries offer three contrasting examples of different approaches to development control. Korea has relatively strict control of housing supply. Thailand has little effective regulation of development. Malaysia offers an intermediate case, having adopted in the mid-1970s development control legislation patterned on the British Town and Country Planning Act.

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