There were no roads, electricity, telephones or even a mail service in Borneo at that time.
Besides the new fab in Borneo, this year they also opened a foundry on the mainland.
An animal lover, he has a zoo in Borneo with dozens of animals including gibbons, sun bears, and peacocks.
Yesterday, the ConCaSa project released a photograph showing the rediscovery of the Hairy-nosed otter in Borneo by the same scientific survey.
BBC: Earth News - Rare Otter civet filmed for first time in Borneo
Environmental groups are already decrying new and expanding palm oil plantations in Borneo that they say are destroying rain forests and threatening orangutans.
Mr Stansfeld saw active service in Borneo and Northern Ireland during a career in the Army before becoming managing director at an aircraft company.
Dr Mahathir's coalition still won a thumping victory, but only with the help of the ethnic-Chinese and indigenous voters from the two big states in Borneo.
What about the Bre-X scandal of 1997--when promises of a mountain of gold in Borneo turned out to be a few ore samples salted with gold dust?
"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.
Fort Defiance, a few blocks north, serves up fresh pasta, small plates like chicken liver pate with bacon-onion jam, and historically-inspired cocktails like the Colonial Cooler, a twist on the Pimm's Cup that was first mixed in British North Borneo in the 1920s.
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.
On March 24th it was reported that two people in Sabah, in Malaysian Borneo, were ill with encephalitis, which had hitherto been confined to the mainland.
Newspapers are recounting harrowing tales of survivors of so-called death camps in North Borneo during World War II - while revealing the existence of what The Sun daily calls "hell holes" in present-day Malaysia.
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 heir to the throne has been particularly outspoken on environmental issues and in the last 12 months has visited eco-systems in Indonesia, Borneo and Brazil.
Want to spend a week in the jungles of Borneo with little but a guide and a survival kit?
Fred Marafono was one of the first Fijians to join the elite regiment, fighting in places such as Borneo and the Falklands during 21 years' service.
Sometimes the offices for Borneo Nature Tours in Lahad Datu can arrange reservations and transport.
In the Malaysian portion of Borneo, police quickly pledged to round up and deport 40, 000 illegal workers.
It is best to arrange your tour through one of the travel agencies in Pangkalan Bun such as Borneo Holidays (www.borneowisata.com), which takes the hassle out of choosing a boat, captain, guide and a cook.
On foreign assignments too, I have seen her at close quarters in Canada, America, Singapore and Borneo.
Mr O'Hanlon, who has taken us to Borneo, Amazonia and Congo in his previous madcap books, is a game, if unstable, passenger.
There were to be many more SAS operations in the war against Hitler and later, the SAS saw action in several counter-insurgency operations, in Oman, Aden, Malaya and Borneo.
If you like your thrills without spills, you may prefer cheering on the speed demons in the third annual Rainforest Cup, a mountain biking race Oct. 17-18 in the Malaysian town of Kuching on Borneo.
Carcasses of the baby-faced elephants were found near each other over the past three weeks at the Gunung Rara Forest Reserve, said Laurentius Ambu, director of the wildlife department in Malaysia's Sabah state on Borneo island.
The army believes he is hiding in the Tawi-Tawi Islands, off Borneo.
Mr al-Bukhary, a close friend of the prime minister's, has built an extraordinary empire in a the five years since the crisis, including Malaysia's fast-growing new container port at Tanjung Pelepas, a hotel and property group, Pernas, mining companies, power companies, palm-oil companies and much else, including a controlling stake in the Bakun dam on the island of Borneo.
The group of some 200 Filipinos landed at a coastal village in the Lahad Datu district of Sabah, on Malaysian Borneo, saying that the territory was theirs.
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