You don’t hear a lot in the news about Borneo, even though it is the third-largest island in the world. Its land is divided among three countries: Indonesia, Brunei and Malaysia. It’s the Malaysian ...

A palm oil company is rapidly clearing rainforest inside a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve that’s home to orangutans and sun bears, ...

By Cassidy Beach In Borneo’s dense rainforest, some communities of Punan people still find their medicine among the trees.

Borneo is home to nearly 18 million people, nearly doubling since 1980. Borneo, like New Guinea, has long had two very different populations: lowly populated, highly tribalized groups in the ...

Mongabay founder Rhett A. Butler writes about his visit to Sungai Utik, a Penan Iban community in Indonesian Borneo last month. Rhett visited Sungai Utik to see how the community has protected their ...

SAMPIT, Indonesia — From his hiding place in the Borneo jungle, Asmawi Ab watched as a band of headhunters caught his father, Palindo, 50 yards away. The elderly man fell to his knees and begged for ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Members of an indigenous tribe in Borneo lost a case in Malaysia's top court Thursday challenging the state's seizure of land to build a massive dam. The verdict capped a ...

THOSE who desire to gain some knowledge T about the attractive inhabitants of Sarawak will find what they require in this interesting and informative book by Dr. Hose. All the information here given ...

The island of Borneo has long conjured powerful Western fantasies of the exotic—a place of steep mountains, impenetrable forests, and Stone Age tribes. A place where spirits lurk, and where men can ...

Twenty-three people are missing in remote Borneo after a boat overloaded with holidaymakers heading home for a festival capsized yesterday in treacherous rapids on a jungle river. The accident ...

Taking aim with a traditional Borneo blowpipe, Britain's Prince Charles gave a royal puff and shot a sharpened wooden dart into a target as he tried out the weapon during a visit to the island on ...