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 ...

The first turbine is spinning, electricity is pulsing out, and the water level is climbing in the Borneo jungle behind Malaysia's huge $2.2 billion Bakun hydroelectric dam. But questions continue to ...

Transnational aluminium smelters, some teaming up with Malaysian partners, are beating a path to eastern Sarawak state with an eye to surplus power from the problem-ridden Bakun Dam. The much-delayed ...

Indigenous protesters in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, Dec. 10, 2013 (Photo by SAVE Rivers) Bakun dam on the Balui River, the world’s second largest dam, is complete and began operating in 2011, while ...

KUALA LUMPUR, May 8 (Reuters) - Malaysia's Sime Darby has put in a claim of 700 million ringgit ($214.2 million) to the government for carrying out civil works on a dam, the Edge newspaper said on ...

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - Malaysian tribal activists who have fought for years against a planned hydroelectric dam declared victory on Tuesday (March 22), saying the state government has scrapped a project ...