Danish educator Torben Venning has worked for more than two decades to help stateless children in Malaysia's Sabah province go to school. He's still fighting a lonely battle.
Palm oil boom in Indonesia and Malaysia is doing irreparable damage to rare biodiversity and accelerating the effects of global warming.
The Asia Society interviews James Whitlow Delano about his reporting on deforestation, palm oil production and its effect on indigenous people in Malaysia.
As the Malaysian rainforest is destroyed by logging and replaced with palm oil plantations, the indigenous people are losing their homeland.
As the palm oil industry continues deforestation in Malaysia, the Batek Negrito people’s natural environment is gradually being destroyed.
Gentle former nomads, the Penan are now on the frontline of a struggle to save the last unprotected rainforest of Sarawak in Malaysia.
The Batek people of Malaysia are struggling to adapt as oil palm plantations take over their homelands, threatening their traditional way of life.
Selective logging is a common practice in Malaysia's rainforests; this "botanical dentistry" extracts valuable trees while leaving others untouched.
The rise of uncontrolled oil palm production and excessive logging threaten the vanishing forests of Malaysia.
Oil palm plantations and logging companies are slowly pushing the Batek Negrito people of Malaysia out of their forest homeland into shrinking settlements.
Worldview interviews Karen Zusman on the plights of Burmese Refugees in Malaysia, who often face immigration raids, poor conditions in detention centers and even financial extortion.
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