Traditionally built to protect properties against the devastating effects of flooding and to stabilise houses on tricky sloping sites, stilt homes offer a wealth of unconventional design possibilities ...

While house-lifting is a solution for individual properties, it can exacerbate flooding for others by changing water flow patterns. The town of Provincetown is exploring mitigation efforts ...

THE Pearl of Borneo. This is what tourists are calling Labuan, which is just two-and-a-half hours by flight from Kuala Lumpur. Situated off the coast of Sabah, it is known as a paradise for ...

It’s located in Malaysia’s Sabah province on the island of Borneo, the third-largest island ... Orang Sungai live in homes built on stilts (“orang” means people and “sungai” means ...

It signifies that this airline is not just promoting Sarawak but Borneo as a whole. Although its main hub will be in Kuching, the name suggests broader representation and promotion of Borneo ...

Khalid Nassar, 61, sits with his wife, Khadra Abu Libda, 59, and his grandchildren for lunch, with fabric covering the hole in a wall of their destroyed house in the Jabaliya refugee camp in the ...

The director noted that perfecting the language of where the title of the house actually fell required “so many rewrites” to ensure specificity. But the glamor of the idea, mixed with the ...

It’s hard to picture British streets without the comforting presence of Victorian houses. For well over a century, they’ve been a familiar backdrop to daily life and continue to symbolise the idea of ...

The Bajau Laut (also known as Sea Gypsies) are nomadic seafaring people who traditionally live on boats and stilt houses in the waters around giant island Malaysian Borneo, Sabah, the Philippines ...

MALAKA, KOMPAS - Stilt houses are a form of flood mitigation for communities residing along the Benenain River, Malaka Regency, East Nusa Tenggara. Over time, this ancestral house model has begun to ...

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They are highly intelligent and share around 97% of their DNA with humans. Orangutans are the only great apes in Asia and make their homes on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra in the Malay Archipelago ...