Children’s laughter skimmed over water the color of mud as mothers wrung laundry over banks where the Sekadau joins the ...

The steamy, jungle-covered tropical island of Borneo was once considered one of the remotest, wildest places on earth. A place where orangutans and headhunters lurked undisturbed. Together with ...

Borneo was once covered in lush, dense rainforests, but they are rapidly disappearing. The Southeast Asian island, roughly three times the size of the UK, has lost half its forest cover since the ...

About half of the orangutans on the island of Borneo were either killed or removed between 1999 and 2015, according to new research. Surveys show only 70,000 - 100,000 orangutans remain in the wild in ...

Scientists have identified the oldest figurative art in the world, and it can be found in a cave in the Borneo jungle. Created more than 40,000 years ago, the faint image depicts wild cattle, painted ...

Forty thousand years ago — 28,000 years before the Neolithic Revolution saw hunter-gatherers settle down and farm, 36,000 before the first pyramids took shape, and 39,000 before the Norman conquest of ...

OFF the southeastern extremity of Asia, and separated from it by the Chinese Sea, lies a cluster of great islands, comprising that portion of Oceanica commonly called Malaysia. Of these islands Borneo ...

Malaysia’s rail development recorded steady progress throughout 2025, marked by major milestones in national megaprojects, renewed ...

At least 52 new species of animals and plants have been identified this past year on the island of Borneo, according to scientists. The discoveries, described in a report compiled by WWF, include 30 ...

A boy is missing on Indonesia's Borneo island after he was attacked by a crocodile, police said on Thursday, the second such attack in the area in two weeks. Indonesia is home to several species of ...

If you flew over the island of Borneo in 1950, you would see nearly unbroken, untouched forest from one end to the other. Of course, there would be villages and cities, roads and trails, but the vast ...

The oldest figurative cave art may not belong to France or Spain, but to Borneo, researchers said Wednesday. They found ancient hand prints, depictions of people dancing and a drawing of what appears ...