Bruno Manser Fund

Sarawak's Taib family has come under attack again for being almost single-handedly responsible for the environmental and social destruction befalling the biodiversity-rich Sarawak. A new Bruno Manser Fund study reports that plans to dam virtually all the rivers in the Malaysian state's interior for hydropower will result in “cultural genocide” and the devastation of hundreds of thousands of hectares of rainforest. It also names a number of international companies including Sinohydro and The China Three Gorges Corporation as being complicit

Switzerland’s Attorney General has opened a criminal investigation into the country’s largest bank, UBS AG, over suspected money laundering of timber corruption proceeds from the Malaysian state of Sabah.

Environmental activists gathered in front of the UN seat at Geneva’s Place des Nations yesterday to protest against plans to construct 12 hydroelectric dams in the Malaysian state of Sarawak on Borneo Island.

The annual general meeting of Neste Oil in Helsinki has been picketed by Greenpeace activists protesting in Helsinki against deforestation and social problems caused by the growing demand for palm oil in biofuel production.

An international campaign is gathering steam against countries and companies with close ties to the family of Sarawak Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud (Taib) to protest alleged wide-spread corruption, particularly surrounding decades of large-scale that have decimated forestry reserves in the Malaysian state.