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keep up-to-date with news of things that matter to them. It can help notify
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27th January, 2003
The rice harvest in Bario is all but over now. The
long-awaited Indonesian workers, having completed harvesting on their side of
the border, finally turned up and the labour problem in Bario ended!
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The Golden Apple Snail
(Photograph by
Balang Paran)
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22nd January, 2003
Three Agriculture
Department Crop Protection Officers from the Kuching Headquarters arrived
in Bario yesterday for a four-day visit.
Their
mission: to assess the current level of infestation by the Golden Apple
Snail. This mollusc, a major padi field pest in most Asian
rice-growing countries, was brought to Bario some years ago by transient
Indonesian workers. The verdict was that Bario's snail
population has not yet been completely eradicated, that the situation
needs to be monitored constantly to avoid crop damage in the future.
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21st January, 2003
Bario's
Internet Cafe is back to its intermittant schedules once again, sometimes
closed all day, sometimes open for short periods only. They are
believed to be experiencing both power as well as
communication problems. Many would-be users have started
gravitating towards the secondary school so that they can check their
e-mail! (See next report)
21st January, 2003
Bario's telephones are currently entirely out of
whack! The telephone at the airport has been in a state of
suspended animation for quite a while now, and is expected to remain
so. The ones by the shops, half-heartedly functional at the best
of times, still do not work despite the best efforts of a visiting Telekoms
technician. The only working telephone in Bario now is the one at
the Clinic: Telephone No: 971047!
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