Sarawak's natives have won two important court cases over native land issues, their attorney announced this morning in the Sarawak state capital of Kuching on the island of Borneo.

The cases had been filed by the natives against the state government of Sarawak and an oil palm company that planned to establish an oil palm plantation on native lands.

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