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Green Animal Shelter & Sanctuary (GrASS) News & Blogs
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Article: On The Right Track
17th Aug 2009, by Green Animal Shelter & Sanctuary (GrASS)
Sunday August 16, 2009 By ROUWEN LIN A quiet girl galloped into the gruelling world of horse racing with remarkable grit and results. A HORSE galloping at top speed around the racetrack is not a force to be reckoned with. Professional horse riders who race – otherwise known as jockeys – have an ambulance follow them around the track in case of an emergency. It is the only job in the world where an ambulance trails you at work. A rough tumble on the tracks can s...
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Article: Monkey See, Monkey Do, Monkey Make Friends
14th Aug 2009, by Green Animal Shelter & Sanctuary (GrASS)
Friday August 14, 2009 CHICAGO (Reuters) - Humans are not the only primates that see imitation as the highest form of flattery -- capuchin monkeys also have a soft spot for those who copy their behavior, researchers reported on Thursday in the journal Science. In a finding that could lend insight into human disorders like autism, U.S. and Italian behavioral psychologists said capuchin monkeys not only spent more time with researchers who imitated their behavior, but ...
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Article: Selangau A Hub For Wildlife Trade
14th Aug 2009, by Green Animal Shelter & Sanctuary (GrASS)
Friday August 14, 2009 By JACK WONG KUCHING: Selangau, in central Sarawak, has been des-cribed as a "one-stop centre" for those looking to buy wildlife. Located about an hour's drive from Sibu, this bazaar-town has restaurants serving up dishes containing boar, venison, flying bats and monitor lizards, amongst other delicacies. Together with Serikin on the Sarawak-West Kalimantan border town, these two areas are hotspots for the illegal wildlife trade. "Illegal ...
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Article: Rare Birds Spotted At Bako-Buntal Bay
14th Aug 2009, by Green Animal Shelter & Sanctuary (GrASS)
Friday August 14, 2009 KUCHING: Two globally-threatened bird species – the Pied Avocet and Eurasian Oystercatcher – have been spotted in the Bako-Buntal Bay near here. Malaysian Nature Society conservation head Yeap Chin Aik said their discoveries this year and in 2007 by its bird watchers were of historical significance to Malaysia and Borneo. "The Bako-Buntal Bay is one of Malaysia's top two migratory waterbird sites (the other is in Selangor). The bay is of international importance for th...
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Article: Hillslope Development Ban
14th Aug 2009, by Green Animal Shelter & Sanctuary (GrASS)
Friday August 14, 2009 By LOH FOON FONG newsdesk@thestar.com.my KUALA LUMPUR: A newly-approved Guidelines for Hillside and Highland Areas Development Planning bans any development on slopes more than 35 degrees. The Cabinet made the decision on Wednesday, said Housing and Local Government Minister Datuk Kong Cho Ha. Development was also prohibited on slopes between 15 and 35 degrees displaying signs of erosion, land instability or laden with sensitive geological mat...
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Article: Hawkers Sold On Idea Of Soap From Used Oil
14th Aug 2009, by Green Animal Shelter & Sanctuary (GrASS)
Friday August 14, 2009 By TAN SIN CHOW EVER imagined that cooking oil used for fried chicken, pisang goreng or yau char kuai (Chinese crullers) could be turned into cash? That is exactly what roadside hawkers, restaurant and food court operators in Seberang Prai are doing at the moment — they are making money by selling their used cooking oil to private companies which then use the oil to make soap bars. Penang executive councillor Phee Boon Poh said each kilogram...
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Article: Turf Club Set To Make History
14th Aug 2009, by Green Animal Shelter & Sanctuary (GrASS)
Friday August 14, 2009 By ALEX TENG PENANG Turf Club (PTC) is set to create history at the end of the month with two RM1mil races at its Batu Gantong course. This is the first time that such a stake is being offered for two of the local races. Both races - Astro Wah Lai Toi Sprint Trophy and the 2009 Malaysian Magic Millions (MM) Classic - will run on Aug 30 meeting. Apart from the time-honoured Sprint Trophy and the MM Classic race, there are several other top cla...
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Article: Mushrooming Business
14th Aug 2009, by Green Animal Shelter & Sanctuary (GrASS)
Friday August 14, 2009 By C.A. ZULKIFLE THE door to a hut opens to reveal rows and rows of bottles lined up neatly on wooden racks. Inside each of these bottles is a growing mushroom which, in time, will poke its little head out the mouth of the bottle and bloom like a bright-coloured flower. This is how Zulkifli Mohamad, 36, cultivates his Ganoderma mushroom at his house compound in Panji in Pengkalan Chepa, Kelantan. He grows mushrooms in 30,000 bottles inside the...
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Article: Fresh From The Rivers
14th Aug 2009, by Green Animal Shelter & Sanctuary (GrASS)
Friday August 14, 2009 Eating Out:By TAN KARR WEI FRESHWATER fish caught in rivers are less likely to have that muddy taste that many discerning gourmets associate it with. "Fish that is reared in ponds tend to have that muddy taste because of the stagnant water. Even sea- water fish reared in ponds could have that taste. The quality of the fish also depends on the type of food it eats," said Empurau Fish Restaurant director James Wong. Wong, who also supplies f...
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Article: Skywatchers To See Streaking Meteors
12th Aug 2009, by Green Animal Shelter & Sanctuary (GrASS)
Published: Wednesday August 12, 2009 MYT 2:10:00 PMLOS ANGELES (AP) - The annual Perseid meteor shower is expected to put on a dazzling sky show. Astronomers say up to 100 meteors per hour are expected to streak across the sky during the shower's peak. In North America, the best time to watch is before dawn Wednesday. The Perseid shower occurs every summer when the Earth's orbit crosses the path of debris thrown off by Comet Swift-Tuttle. This article was taken from: The Star Online: Wo...
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Article: Haze Worsens In Sarawak
12th Aug 2009, by Green Animal Shelter & Sanctuary (GrASS)
Wednesday August 12, 2009 By STEPHEN THEN and CHEW WAN YING MIRI: Fires in some districts and oil palm plantations has created a thick blanket of smoke and haze over Sarawak's northern region. Firemen have been working around the clock to bring the blaze under control as well battle peat fires near the Sarawak-Brunei border. The haze and smoke have resulted in flight disruptions and cancellation of public functions. Fires were also reported at oil palm plantations ...
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Article: Hearing On Hillside Projects
12th Aug 2009, by Green Animal Shelter & Sanctuary (GrASS)
Wednesday August 12, 2009 By IAN MCINTYRE A GROUP of residents in Tanjung Bungah, Penang, is urging other residents to attend a public hearing on hillslope development in the state constituency at the Town Hall in Penang at 2.15pm tomorrow. Pearl Hill Townhouse Phase I and II Residents Association spokesman Desmond Leng said they were trying to get some 150 families in the locality to attend the hearing which was called by the Penang Municipal Council on the request...
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Article: Attack Of The Fire Ants
12th Aug 2009, by Green Animal Shelter & Sanctuary (GrASS)
Wednesday August 12, 2009 By IAN MCINTYRE A COLONY of fire ants attacked a section of the Batu Lanchang hawker centre in Penang with several customers and traders suffering stinging bites that caused huge swellings. "We came to sample hawker food and did not expect to be bitten by ants," said a customer who was part of a group to savour the food at the centre. Pest control: Workers trimming the tree next to the Batu Lanchang hawker centre in Penang. When the ants first a...
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Article: Do More To Protect Our Wildlife
12th Aug 2009, by Green Animal Shelter & Sanctuary (GrASS)
Wednesday August 12, 2009I REFER to your comprehensive coverage on wildlife trafficking that involved a well known smuggler ("I got greedy" – The Star, Aug 10). I read with so much sadness the rampant smuggling of wildlife that gives a bad name to our country. I cannot understand why Malaysia is a transit point for such illegal activities. While I know that there are steps taken by our Wildlife Department to catch the culprits, I feel the efforts should be intensified. I urge the Government to...
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Article: 700 Trapped, Possibly Dead, In Taiwan: Military
12th Aug 2009, by Green Animal Shelter & Sanctuary (GrASS)
Tuesday August 11, 2009 A man walks on a damaged road after Typhoon Morakot swept Tainan county, in southern Taiwan August 11, 2009. (REUTERS/Stringer) CISHAN, Taiwan (Reuters) - More than 700 people are trapped, possibly dead, in two southern Taiwan villages ravaged by mudslides after typhoon Morakot swamped the island, defence officials said on Tuesday. Hu Jui-chou, an army major-general involved in rescue operations, said those trapped included people buried by a...
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Article: Earthquakes Shake Tokyo Area, Indian Ocean
12th Aug 2009, by Green Animal Shelter & Sanctuary (GrASS)
Published: Tuesday August 11, 2009 MYT 7:39:00 AMUpdated: Tuesday August 11, 2009 MYT 10:53:21 AMTOKYO (AP) - A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.6 hit Tokyo and nearby areas shortly after dawn Tuesday, halting trains and forcing two nuclear reactors to be shut down for safety checks. The U.S. Geological Survey said another, unrelated quake with a 7.6 magnitude hit the Indian Ocean about 160 miles (257 kilometers) north of Port Blair in India's Andaman Islands. A tsunami ...
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