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 ...

Deep within Malaysia’s rainforests, a world of secrets and wisdom flourishes—guarded by the Orang Asli, the country’s indigenous peoples. Their gardens are not marked by fences or neat rows ...

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 ...

In conserving Helmeted Hornbills, the MNS sought to ‘marry’ both modern conservation techniques with the Orang Asli’s traditional ecological knowledge of BTFC and the hornbills. Chin-Aik Yeap, the ...

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 which is considered divine to them.

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.

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

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.

Gifting orang utans to countries that buy Malaysia’s palm oil is a terrible idea, said conservationists and wildlife experts, adding that palm-oil cultivation has been one of the biggest factors ...

KUALA LUMPUR — Donations to a Malaysian orang utan conservation programme will be eligible for tax relief, including on funds that come from palm oil industry players, the overseeing foundation ...