A Brunei air force helicopter crashed, killing 12 military officials returning back from training, authorities in the southeast Asian nation said Saturday.
Engineers have restored propulsion power to a cruise ship carrying about 1,000 people after it was left adrift off Indonesia by an engine fire, cruise company Azamara Club Cruises said.
A toad which hasn't been observed in the wild for almost a century has been rediscovered by researchers in Malaysian Borneo.
It's been said that we know more about the moon than we know about our own oceans.
Bordered by Thailand, Indonesia and Brunei, and with a heritage of diverse influences including a long period of British colonial rule and an economically powerful Chinese community, Malaysia is one of the most multicultural nations in southeast Asia.
One of the small sorrows of my adult life is being married to a man who won't eat tongue. "It's delicious," I tell him, but he won't budge. "If you tasted it and didn't know what it was, you'd love it," I say. "The problem is all in your head!"
Rebecca Rusch was a long way from Idaho.
A British woman who died in mysterious circumstances more than 30 years ago in Saudi Arabia was due finally to be laid to rest Monday, her father told CNN.
Those on the fence about which video game console to buy might be tempted by Sony's recent introduction of the higher-capacity and slimmer new PlayStation 3, with a $100 price cut to $299.
An Indonesian navy plane crash-landed Monday in eastern Borneo, killing four crew members and injuring five others, a navy spokesman said.
A year ago, they were complete unknowns, living a peaceful existence far away from the glare of the international media. Not any more.
A pea-sized seahorse, the world's longest insect, a "ghost slug" and the world's smallest snake were among the top 10 species discovered in 2008, a committee of scientists said Friday.
Conservationists have found a new population of orangutans in a steep, mountainous corner of Indonesia -- a discovery that significantly adds to the number of the endangered red-haired primates.
What do Oreo cookies made by Nabisco, Cheez-It crackers from Kellogg's or General Mills' Fiber One Chewy Bars have to do with global warming and the destruction of tropical rainforests? A lot, say environmental activists.
Orangutan numbers have declined sharply on the only two islands where they still live in the wild and they could become the first great ape species to go extinct if urgent action isn't taken
Borneo's pygmy elephants may be descendants of an extinct
Javan elephant race, saved by chance by an 18th century ruler
Indonesia has drafted a plan to create the world's largest oil palm plantation, despite warnings from environmental groups that the result could be devastating.
We received thousands of e-mails in the days after December's tsunamis from people seeking news of friends and relatives in areas affected by the disaster.
Australian police have arrested a man over a Southeast Asia sunken treasure scheme that promised huge returns to investors.
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Through a fog of nitrous oxide, I asked the endodontist about the toothpick-like thing he was about to put in my mouth. "That's a gutta-percha point," replied the doc. "We use them to fill up the r...
Do you hoard frequent-flier miles the way you save for retirement--banking them for a day in the future when you'll finally hop that free flight to Borneo? Well, don't. Some industry watchers have ...
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Fortune: Borneo to Shanghaiupdated: Mon Feb 01 1999 00:01:00
When we read in the papers that the Sultan of Brunei's brother Prince Jefri had reportedly gone missing with some $8 billion of the family fortune, we knew just what to do: send our man Rich Behar ...
Consider this: If the more than 100 billionaires examined on the following pages liquidated all their assets, they could comfortably eliminate the 1987 U.S. budget deficit. Dream on, Gramm-Rudmanit...
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