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KUALA LUMPUR – A Malaysian minister’s proposal to send orang utans as gifts to countries that buy its palm oil in a bid to show “commitment to biodiversity conservation” has been panned by ...

Seven Orang Asli children disappeared from school in Malaysia last August. After 47 days only two were found alive.

As developers and other commercial players come knocking, the Mah Meri in Selangor are one of Malaysia's indigenous communities fighting to gazette their land before it’s too late.

Virtually all Orang Asli households in Peninsular Malaysia are in the income bracket of the poorest 40% of Malaysians, says the nongovernmental organisation (NGO) Center for Orang Asli Concerns.

GUA MUSANG (Malaysia) — Malaysia's National Day, or Merdeka Day, this year may be more significant under a new government, but for the first inhabitants of this country, the orang asli, it is ...

Palm oil threatens indigenous life in Malaysia Growing demand for palm oil is depleting forests as the Orang Asli tribe fights for its rights.

For decades they have been bullied, ignored and marginalized, forced off their land and deprived of their rights. All that is about to change for the unassuming Orang Asli, the indigenous people of ...

In Malaysia, a group of Orang Asli (First Peoples) women have been advocating to strengthen their representation in Malaysian society through documentaries and workshops.

As Malaysia enforced strict movement curbs this month to try to stop the spread of a virus that has infected more than 3,000 people locally and killed 50, the Orang Asli said they had been ...