There were no roads, electricity, telephones or even a mail service in Borneo at that time.
Sometimes the offices for Borneo Nature Tours in Lahad Datu can arrange reservations and transport.
With vast oil reserves, tiny Brunei on the northwest coast of Borneo is immensely wealthy.
Besides the new fab in Borneo, this year they also opened a foundry on the mainland.
On foreign assignments too, I have seen her at close quarters in Canada, America, Singapore and Borneo.
In the Malaysian portion of Borneo, police quickly pledged to round up and deport 40, 000 illegal workers.
Churchill claims that it has since been the target of a campaign to drive it out of Borneo.
Locally, the award-winning tour operator Borneo Ecotours is finding the same trend.
The poll didn't cover the Borneo states of Sabah and Sarawak, where the National Front has traditionally been strong.
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An animal lover, he has a zoo in Borneo with dozens of animals including gibbons, sun bears, and peacocks.
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The WWF wildlife group estimates that fewer than 1, 500 Borneo pygmy elephants exist.
For centuries, the forest dwellers of Sumatra and Borneo have been slashing and burning to clear land to grow crops.
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Yesterday, the ConCaSa project released a photograph showing the rediscovery of the Hairy-nosed otter in Borneo by the same scientific survey.
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After several years of expeditions - including to Borneo, Indonesia and Guatemala - he "wanted to push it a bit further".
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Mr O'Hanlon, who has taken us to Borneo, Amazonia and Congo in his previous madcap books, is a game, if unstable, passenger.
The army believes he is hiding in the Tawi-Tawi Islands, off Borneo.
By the time the couple reached Borneo they had relaxed a bit.
Environmental groups are already decrying new and expanding palm oil plantations in Borneo that they say are destroying rain forests and threatening orangutans.
After that, it was thought he would have little to fear in the comparatively sleepy backwater of Sarawak, on the island of Borneo.
The crux of their disagreement lies in a contract made in 1878, between the Sultanate of Sulu and the British North Borneo Company.
Mr Stansfeld saw active service in Borneo and Northern Ireland during a career in the Army before becoming managing director at an aircraft company.
Malaysian troops are searching houses and terrain for armed members of a Filipino clan embroiled in a three-week conflict in Sabah on Borneo island.
The adorned skull of a tiny Borneo primate with huge eyes "looks so sweetly cuddly, " as she says, yet its mouth reveals razor-sharp teeth.
"In particular we're seeing an increase in travellers opting for orangutan based holiday experiences in Malaysia - Borneo in particular, " said communications manager Krissy Roe.
Borneo island is divided among three countries: Indonesian territory in the south, two Malaysian states in the north and tiny Brunei on the north coast.
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.
One of your predecessors, Dr. Kinari Webb, Yale class of 2002 found her passion for medicine growing adjacent to the threatened rain forests of Borneo.
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.
If you prefer an upscale scene, check into the Borneo Rainforest Lodge (rates start at 1, 853 ringgit and include pick up at Lahad Datu Airport).
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