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Kick-boxing orangutans going home

... said the apes would spend two months in quarantine before undergoing a two-year rehabilitation program prior to their release back into the jungles of Borneo island. Fewer than 30,000 orangutans are thought to be left in the jungles of Malaysia and ...

Be prepared to dig deep for these shorts

In Malaysia, home to more than 6 million ethnic Chinese, the price of fake money that is burnt as offerings to the dead has jumped by up to 20 percent because the colourful bills are made in China where costs are rising, a local daily said on Monday. ...

Exotic creatures found in ‘coral triangle’

Madin, of the Massachusetts-based Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, or WHOI, said the Celebes Sea is at the heart of the "coral triangle" bordered by the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia — a region recognized by scientists as having the ...

Bank robbers need lesson in ATM operation

Or at least that was the problem that thwarted three men who broke into a bank in northern Malaysia recently, tied a rope around what they thought was an ATM, attached it to two vehicles, and yanked the machine from its hinges. The trio managed to ...