Nearly 50 years after independence for Sarawak, we see a comparison with the ‘Highland Clearances’ in Scotland during the 18th century when the highlanders were driven off their lands for capitalistic ...

Tall-e Bakun was continuously inhabited from c. 4200 to c. 3000 BC, expected to be the oldest yet discovered in that area of Iran. Excavations in 1928 by the University of Berlin and 1932 by the ...

Kuala Lumpur (AFP) – Malaysia's government agreed to pay $133 million in compensation to two foreign contractors for losses incurred in the problem-plagued Bakun Dam, an audit has revealed. The ...

Critics say a mega-dam in the Malaysian state of Sarawak, which involved flooding an area the size of Singapore, has proved a catastrophe for the local environment and people -- and the race is on to ...

KUCHING: The 2,400MW Bakun hydroelectric dam is currently operating at slightly more than 50% of its optimum generating capacity even though all its eight turbines have been commissioned. Sarawak ...

WATERSOUND, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The St. Joe Company (NYS: JOE) ("St. Joe" or the "Company") announced today that Marek Bakun is joining the Company as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) effective ...

12 January 2004 – Malaysia is looking into the possibility of scaling back power output from the 2400 MW Bakun hydroelectric dam due to uncertainty over demand. The $2.4bn project, which is planned to ...

The Long Lawen community has no regrets about refusing to relocate to the Sungai Asap resettlement site after the Bakun dam was built about 20 years ago. Village head Gara Jalong said back in 1998 ...

YARDLEY BOROUGH – Longtime Yardley Borough historian Annamae Bakun, who loved her town and was passionate about its past, died peacefully Jan. 28, 2013 at the Buckingham Valley Rehabilitation and ...

PRZEMYSL, Poland — As the mayor of a small city hugging the border with Ukraine, Wojciech Bakun admits he was ill-prepared to become a front-line humanitarian worker dealing with the fastest exodus of ...