Borneo Jet Ski Challenge

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Its April Fools day for this exciting event…will you dare to?

Organised by local youth association to promote a friendly challenge between the locals. The esplanade comes to life with this exciting challenge where skills are honed and jet skis are displayed.

Borneo Jet Ski Challenge

Date	:	Apr 1 – 30 2009
Venue	:	Luak Bay Esplanade Sarawak
Organiser	:	Pergerakan Pemuda PBB Kpg Wireless
Contact	:	Mohamad Haidar / Saiful Bahrien
Phone	:	+6 016 852 2320 / +6 016 852 6116
Category	:	Arts, Culture and Entertainment

Go on…you know you want to!

Florist and gift shop in Malaysia

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Noel Hampers & Gifts (KL) Sdn Bhd is a well known Malaysia florist and gift shop. With her fully tested franchise system has been expanding to meet the ever-increasing demand of the Malaysian gift-giving society. With 17 years of specialisation in the gifting industry, Noel is the choice for great gift ideas.

Tattoo Exhibition

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Date for your diary is: April 2009

5th, 12nd, 19th, 26th

Have the opportunity to get your tattoo done traditionally in an atmosphere simulating how it may have been like to do it during the olden days, a memorable experience to go along with your tattoo.

Here are some Dayak tattoos:

Further Information:
Organiser : Monsopiad Cultural Village
Contact Person : Monsopiad Cultural Village
Telephone : +6088 774337 / 761336
Fax : +6088 761680
Email Contact : info@monsopiad.com

Ferry capsizes in storm: dozens missing

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This post has new editing at the foot of the post.

Oh no!! Since boxing day 2004 Asia seems to suffer one tragedy after another, mostly with the water element of nature. I really hope they are all found.

AT LEAST 100 people were reported missing late last night when a ferry, hit by waves from a tropical cyclone, capsized in eastern Indonesia.

The passenger ferry, Teratai Prima, had left the Sulawesi town of Pare-pare and was travelling through the Makassar Straits for the Indonesian half of Borneo, Kalimantan, with about 250 passengers and 18 crew, Indonesia’s Transport Ministry said.

Illegal exports endanger box turtles in Malaysia

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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia—The box turtle is disappearing across Malaysia because of increased illegal hunting for its meat and use in traditional Chinese medicine, wildlife activists said Wednesday.

TRAFFIC, a wildlife trade monitoring network, said in a new report that the Malayan Box Turtle “is in peril due to overexploitation” despite a Malaysian government ban on its export since 2005.

Malaysian landslide kills three, seven feared buried

KUALA LUMPUR – Three people were killed and seven were feared buried in a landslide that hit a housing estate in suburban Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, forcing thousands to evacuate, state media said.

Police said that a woman, her child and an unidentified man had died in the landslide which hit in the early hours of the morning, burying 14 houses at the upmarket Bukit Antarabangsa estate, the official Bernama news agency reported.

Dayak people call for a helping hand

The decline of the forest has not only affected the endangered orangutan but also the lives of Orang Dayak, the indigenous people of Kalimantan.

Many reports have described the gloomy fate of the Dayaks, who have yet to benefit from the lucrative business activities going on around them, despite the fact they are the rightful owners of the land. In several reports, a number of Dayaks have attested they lag behind migrants around them in benefiting from the incoming investment on their lands.

Christmas in Malaysia

The observance of the birth of Jesus Christ on Dec 25 is celebrated in Malaysia like everywhere else in the world; it is a time for family and friends; hope and rejoicing; love and understanding; and giving and forgiving.

However, the image of a white Christmas – that of chestnuts roasting on an open fire, and Jack Frost nipping at the nose – doesn’t quite fit in too well with a country that is merely seven degrees shy of the Equator. The average temperatures here range from a low of 22 °C to a high of 33 °C, so a sunny (or perhaps, rainy) Christmas is a given.

Malaysia clerics issue yoga fatwa

*Shakes head*…Its not a religeon for goodness sake!! It would not take the place of Islam in any shape or form! Its not like the Muslims would be ‘adoring false Gods’ before them ……or instead of..

Malaysia’s National Fatwa Council said it goes further than that and that elements of the Indian religion are inherent in yoga.

Announcing the decision, the council chairman Abdul Shukor Husin said practices like chanting and what he called worshipping were inappropriate and they could “destroy the faith of a Muslim”.

OK, if it is seen as worship then why not worship by chanting Islam whilst at the same time yoga excercise. Is it not true to say that kneeling and touching the ground with head or lips not a form of worship whilst /exercising?

Mosques to preach protection of turtles

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia—Islamic preachers in eastern Malaysia will deliver an unusual ecological sermon urging Muslims to protect migratory turtles that are threatened with extinction, conservationists said Monday.