Based on a mythological creature recorded in several Malay and Indonesian accounts, the WWII-set Orang Ikan makes a bold foray into the creature film genre. The Singapore-Indonesia-Japan-UK ...

EXCLUSIVE: The trailer for Mike Wiluan’s historical monster film, Orang Ikan, has been unveiled, ahead of its world premiere in the Tokyo International Film Festival’s Gala section. Set in 1942 in the ...

In Mike Wiluan's Orang Ikan, the phrase 'an enemy of my enemy is my friend' rings true. Per the official logline below, the movie is a historical monster film set during the Second World War, which ...

My first expedition to Sumatra took place in 2003. As the zoological director of the Centre for Fortean Zoology I have been all over the world in search of creatures such as the giant anaconda, the ...

When Biruté Galdikas and Rod Brindamour began their pioneering orang-utan rehabilitation efforts at Camp Leakey in Tanjung Puting National Park, Central Kalimantan, all orang-utans were considered a ...

When travelers think of Assam’s wildlife, Kaziranga National Park often steals the spotlight. But hidden away on the northern banks of the Brahmaputra River lies a lesser-known yet equally ...

In a major boost to tiger conservation in North East India, and Assam in particular, Orang National Park was declared a tiger reserve last month, making it the fourth of its kind in the state and 49th ...

THESE days, we tend to accept without question that humans are “the third chimpanzee”. The term, coined by author Jared Diamond, refers to the notion that our closest relatives are the two chimpanzee ...