All posts tagged "plantation"
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6.1KCultureMalaysia’s bananas are “bleeding” & they might end up going extinct.
There’s been a silent killer that’s been going around Malaysia, destroying farmers’ bananas since 2007: the Banana Blood Disease. No, it’s got...
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2.0KHuman rightsWe compared employment benefits for Hantu Saka and pekerja asing. The hantu won
When we think of hantu, we’ll usually imagine a spooky spectre scaring us at night, because that’s what hantus do, right? But...
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4.4KBusinessThe govt may ban foreign workers coming to M’sia… but what about those already here?
[UPDATE: 17 July 2020] We’re updating this article to correct a mistake made by this writer for attributing the Malay Mail instead...
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1.1KCultureOur durians recently got very popular, but here’s why it may not be a good thing.
We’ve talked a lot about deforestation in Malaysia before, and so far, the usual culprits have been oil palm, logging and mining....
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4214EnvironmentWhere is all of Malaysia’s timber going?
The east coast of Malaysia is no stranger to floods, but even so it couldn’t have prepared us all for this year’s almost-Armageddon kind...