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The air is thick with the scent of damp earth and wild ginger as rays of sunlight struggle through the emerald canopy. Deep ...
Malaysia's first Orang Asli member of parliament Ramli Mohd Nor, who won the Cameron Highlands by-election in January, told the Malaysian Insight that bus operators were planning to stop sending ...
He said modern urban society has a good deal to learn from the Orang Asli who are peace-loving and have deep respect for the environment ... Orang Asli, Malaysia’s First People” at Sunway ...
The Hornbill Guardians are also members of Malaysia’s Indigenous community called the Orang Asli. Since 2004, they have been working with MNS to protect the Critically Endangered Helmeted Hornbill and ...
The Covid-19 pandemic has demonstrated how important it is for Malaysia's indigenous people, the Orang Asli, to have food resilience, and in the process, rediscover traditional practices.
Eventually an Orang Asli police unit was brought in to help, ... "We must feel heart sick that such callousness, inhumanity, negligence and gross incompetence can happen in modern-day Malaysia." ...
The country has slightly more than 200,000 Orang Asli from 18 tribes, or just under 1 per cent of its total population of 32 million. Selangor is home to 4,100 members of the Mah Meri, its ...
First published in Malay in 2013, ‘Slave’ is a moving work by Semai author Akiya that covers a dark part of history often omitted from chronicles of the past.
In the Malay language, orang utan means “person of the forest”. These great apes are found only in Malaysia and Indonesia. They have reddish fur, long arms, cheek pads and, just like China’s ...