Rivers form the main transportation network for hundreds of thousands of people in sprawling Sarawak.
The Sarawak results may make the government hold off on calling an early national election.
The most notable casualty is the massive hydro-electric Bakun Dam in East Malaysia's Sarawak state.
The Sarawak election was the biggest test of Prime Minister Najib's message of national unity and inclusiveness.
The neighboring Malaysian state of Sarawak this week blocked a boat carrying 411 Madurese refugees from landing.
But in Sarawak, East Malaysia, they may save youngsters from a deadly virus threatening the toddler population.
ASPNet's Advisory Teachers Coordination and Enhancement Meeting held on April 26th to 29th 2004 in Kuching, Sarawak.
More high drama will no doubt surround a state election in Sarawak, which must be called this year.
The poll didn't cover the Borneo states of Sabah and Sarawak, where the National Front has traditionally been strong.
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And then came yet another problem with the troubled Bakun dam in Sarawak.
The "anti-cession" movement objected to the decision to cede Sarawak to the British.
Just as baffled are two U.S. experts who flew to Sarawak after seeing an SOS appeal on the Internet.
The government has been attacked for its decision to keep Sarawak schools open.
Schools are still open and flights to and from Sarawak are continuing normally.
"There is no place for sedition in a democracy, " said Andrew Aeria, a political-science professor at University Malaysia's Sarawak campus.
In December 1949 the new governor of the recently acquired British colony of Sarawak was on his first official tour.
The company's main strengths are its extensive branch network, especially in Sabah and Sarawak, and its mainly Chinese client list.
Forests Monitor is still sceptical that Sarawak, which has few trees left but large deposits of oil, will ever benefit.
The quote from Universiti Malaysia Sarawak's Gazali Ismail that "the project's impact would be enormous but not disastrous" is not very comforting.
As the Sarawak death toll rose last week, Health Minister Chua urged parents to limit the number of people cuddling their children.
Public concerns about safety, including the enforcement of rules for ferry capacity, have occasionally emerged, but major boat accidents in Sarawak are rare.
After that, it was thought he would have little to fear in the comparatively sleepy backwater of Sarawak, on the island of Borneo.
The restaurant business in Sarawak has so far been the worst hit, but shopping malls and hotels have also reported a drop in business.
Malaysia's governing coalition won a key election in the Borneo state of Sarawak over the weekend, but it lost most of the ethnic Chinese vote.
The ministers met again on February 25th, in Sarawak in Malaysian Borneo, and claimed that at least the new fires around settlements were under control.
Health officials are struggling to determine why the Sarawak strain is so dangerous to pre-schoolers and what can be done to stop it claiming more victims.
The number could be cut down if existing groupings could be widened for instance if Malaya could federate with Sarawak and Borneo, British Guiana with the West Indies.
"Over the next five years, there is no doubt that Proton can survive because of the protection it has, " says analyst Loke Chee Kien of Sarawak Securities.
Both were thought to be members of a group dedicated to restoring Anthony Brooke, heir-elect of a British family of so-called White Rajahs, to the throne of Sarawak.
But Sabah and Sarawak, where BN cleaned up, were given greater representation, with former Sabah chief minister Bernard Dompok moving into the PM's department as a full cabinet member.
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