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New ‘snug,’ a snail with a too-small shell, described from Brunei rainforest

Mongabay 27 Apr 2023
The so-called snug, a snail whose external shell is too small to house its entire body, has been named Microparmarion sallehi and can be found in the forests of Ulu Temburong National Park, Brunei, according to a study published April 10 in the Biodiversity Data Journal ... Microparmarion sallehi. Image courtesy of Schilthuizen et al. (2023).
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International Public Speakers To Watch Out For!

LA Weekly 24 Apr 2023
They have been published in several online magazines including Tribune Byte, Star Tribune, Disrupt, Digital Journal, Forbes Brunei and Entrepreneur Clout, and have featured in a number of Podcasts and video interviews ... Named in the Wall Street Journal as a “Master of Success” and listed as one of the top 10 life coaches to watch for in 2021 ... Email ... .
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Citizen scientists discover new 'snug' in Brunei forest, name it after retiring field center manager

Phys Dot Org 10 Apr 2023
Menno Schilthuizen et al, A new semi-slug of the genus Microparmarion from Brunei, discovered, described and DNA-barcoded on citizen-science 'taxon expeditions' (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora, Ariophantidae), Biodiversity Data Journal (2023) ... Journal information. Biodiversity Data Journal.
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Wawasan Brunei 2025, the vision of Brunei Darussalam

Blitz 24 Mar 2023
The Wawasan Brunei 2035 have several goals such as creating well educated and highly-skilled people as measured by the highest international standard and qualification, top ten nations in life quality, being one of the top countries in the world recognize for its dynamic and sustainable economy with high income per capita ... Wawasan Brunei 2035.
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Explainer-What the world's nature-rich nations want out of a global conservation deal

Yahoo Daily News 17 Dec 2022
By Gloria Dickie ... summit in Montreal this week ... Environment Programme ... BRAZIL ... 10 ... Habitat destruction from palm oil plantations, logging and mining, along with hunting, halved the orangutan population on the island of Borneo — shared between Indonesia, Malaysia, and Brunei — from 1999 to 2015, according to a 2018 study in the journal Current Biology.
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Explainer: What the world's nature-rich nations want out of a global conservation deal

Reuters 17 Dec 2022
And protecting these ecosystems, experts say, could help save the planet ... talks ... Habitat destruction from palm oil plantations, logging and mining, along with hunting, halved the orangutan population on the island of Borneo — shared between Indonesia, Malaysia, and Brunei — from 1999 to 2015, according to a 2018 study in the journal Current Biology.
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Explainer-What the world’s nature-rich nations want out of a global conservation deal

FX Empire 17 Dec 2022
By Gloria Dickie ... summit in Montreal this week ... Environment Programme ... Brazil ... 10 ... Habitat destruction from palm oil plantations, logging and mining, along with hunting, halved the orangutan population on the island of Borneo — shared between Indonesia, Malaysia, and Brunei — from 1999 to 2015, according to a 2018 study in the journal Current Biology.
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Centre for Journalism Studies can be region's reference point - MJTS President

Malaysian National News Agency 31 May 2022
... also proposed that the research centre not only target journalists in Malaysia but Malay journalism as well, especially in the Malay archipelago such as Indonesia, Brunei and the Philippines that are interconnected.
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First leaf fossil study of Borneo's rainforest reveals current ecosystem is ancient

Phys Dot Org 28 Apr 2022
The first study of leaf fossils conducted in the nation of Brunei on the island of Borneo has revealed that the current dominant tree group, the dipterocarps, has dominated the rainforests for at least 4 million years, according to an international research team led by Penn State�in partnership with Universiti Brunei Darussalam.
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Entomologists discover a rare species of tropical Heteroptera with long antennae

Phys Dot Org 22 Sep 2020
About 1% of the island's territory is occupied by the state of Brunei Darussalam where Ulu Temburong National Park is located ... Here Claas Damken, a research participant from Jalan Universiti, Brunei Darussalam, Brunei, collected the Heteroptera, which were later sent to Anna Namyatova, the second author, for identification.
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Brunei's fertility rate falling, life expectancy up: study

China.dot.org 28 Jul 2020
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, July 28 (Xinhua) -- Brunei's total fertility rate will drop to 1.84 in 2050 and 1.67 in 2100 compared to 1.88 in 2017, a ...
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Cute new snail named after Greta Thunberg

Treehugger 20 Feb 2020
The group was on a research field trip at Kuala Belalong Field Studies Centre in Brunei with ... Biodiversity Data Journal/CC BY 4.0 ... Caenogastropoda), discovered and described on a field course to Kuala Belalong rainforest, Brunei," was published in Biodiversity Data Journal.
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Cambodia Denies 'Secret' Naval Base Agreement With China

Voa News 22 Jul 2019
On Sunday, The Wall Street Journal reported a bilateral agreement, signed earlier this year, would give China exclusive rights to parts of the Ream naval base, located near a large airport being built by China on the Gulf of Thailand in neighboring Koh Kong province ... The Journal report cited unnamed U.S.
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Mongolia awaits star players in 2022 World Cup qualifying

Finger Lakes Times 18 Jul 2019
Mongolia, ranked 187th in the world, edged past Brunei in the first round in June to earn a place in Group F in the second round and eight much-needed competitive games ... JASON WILDE For the State Journal ... JASON WILDE For the State Journal. Had Mongolia lost to Brunei in June then ...
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If the Senate won’t convict Trump, “Why is that bad for the Democrats?” asks The ...

Vox 14 Jun 2019
I did political journalism there ... So what prompted you to want to do journalism in the first place? So I went to university in the late ’90s ... The Intercept set itself up, it was mainly known as national security journalism, whistleblowers, leaks ... My journalism is on the record, right? I wrote a piece recently about Brunei ... No, I do tough journalism.

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