The state of the local press industry in Sabah, Malaysia, pioneered by trilingual newspapers such as Daily Express, New Sabah Times, and Borneo Post, seems to be losing ground when they stop or reduce their Kadazandusun sections due a major financial crisis. Therefore, this study will examine its needs effect on communities Sabah. Results found that play an important role both political aspects...

Seven species of Orsunius Assing, 2011 are described and illustrated, six them from Borneo one Vietnam: weigeli spec. nov. (North Vietnam), O. floreni (Malaysia: Sabah), flavoniger incitatus curvicollis tricolor arboris Sabah). The genus now includes 31 named extant distributed in the southern East Palaearctic, Oriental, northern Australian regions.

The worldwide evolution of park management has revealed the dual roles of parks in meeting nature conservation and social objectives. Sustainable tourism is able to support these roles by providing financial support to nature conservation, benefiting local communities through providing employment opportunities and capacity building as well as by maintaining visitor satisfaction. Kinabalu Park i...

I present a brief synopsis of six key lessons provided by research on forest ecology and conservation, focusing particularly on the Malaysian state of Sabah in northeastern Borneo. These lessons are generalizable to other contexts, especially for tropical developing nations, where surviving forests are under growing pressures from a range of human activities.

In 2015, a female patient returning to Australia from Sabah, Malaysia, was diagnosed with a suspected sylvatic dengue virus type 2 (DENV-2) infection, becoming the second case of imported highly divergent dengue virus infection recorded in Australia. We describe here the complete genome sequencing of the DENV-2 strain isolated from this patient.

A sponge-associated species of the genus Nippontonia new to science is described from Semporna, Sabah, Malaysia. The only other species in the genus is also known to be a sponge-dweller. The new species can be distinguished from its con- gener by a suite of characters mainly of the anterior appendages.

A new species of terrestrial sesarmid crab, Scandarma raymondi, is described from Sabah, Malaysia. This is the third species in the genus; others are from Taiwan, Japan and Sarawak, Borneo. The new species differs from congeners in the live coloration, proportions of the carapace and ambulatory legs and morphologies of the male abdomen, chela and male first gonopod.

BACKGROUND The simian parasite Plasmodium knowlesi is a common cause of human malaria in Malaysian Borneo and threatens the prospect of malaria elimination. However, little is known about the emergence of P. knowlesi, particularly in Sabah. We reviewed Sabah Department of Health records to investigate the trend of each malaria species over time. METHODS Reporting of microscopy-diagnosed malar...

Health literacy (HL) sets on the ability and motivation of individuals to appraise, understand, access, utilise information in ways that promote maintain good health. Poorer health outcomes incurs higher healthcare expenditures can be cause limited HL. Sabah public facilities conducted a cross-sectional study between February October 2020. A 12-item Short-Form Literacy Survey (HLS-SF12) compris...