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Sarawak rivers drying up
2014-09-07 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Borneo Post: OVER the last couple of weeks, we had seen quite a bit of rain, and in some instances, very heavy downpours. Showers have provided much needed relief for thousands of people who experienced acute water shortage between June and July. However, this may just be a temporary relief as water scarcity will continue to stalk the state and the country as a whole. Mankinds insatiable thirst for water and deforestation activities seems to have pushed our most precious natural resource water to...
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Balai Cluster Project, Sarawak
2014-02-14 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
Balai Cluster project is located offshore Sarawak, Eastern Malaysia, around 130km northeast of Bintulu in water depths of around 60m.
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Plan for manganese smelter in Sarawak
2013-06-30 19:46:25| Food - Topix.net
SOUTH Africa's Assmang Ltd, Taiwan's China Steel Corp and Japan's Sumitomo Corp plan to build a manganese alloy smelting facility in Sarawak to cater to the growing Asian market.
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Plan for manganese smelter in Sarawak
2013-06-30 19:46:16| Grocery - Topix.net
SOUTH Africa's Assmang Ltd, Taiwan's China Steel Corp and Japan's Sumitomo Corp plan to build a manganese alloy smelting facility in Sarawak to cater to the growing Asian market.
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Malaysia: Sarawak targets 1M ha of tree plantations by 2020
2013-06-23 01:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Sarawak, a state in Malaysian Borneo, aims to have 1 million hectares of industrial tree plantations by 2020 to offset declining timber production due to unsustainable forest management practices. According to the June bulletin from the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO), Sarawak currently has 306,486 ha to tree plantations, meaning it needs to plant 90,000 hectares per year to meet its 2020 target. Currently 72 percent of the state's plantations consist of Acacia trees. Batai (12...
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