The air vibrates with squeaks and whirrs, buzzing and squawking – mostly from birds and bugs, I’m guessing, and the occasional bark and grunt of a long-tailed macaque. I wish I had an app, like Shazam ...

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Malaysia’s iconic rainforest resort appoints Stephane Duvacher as General Manager; Arnaud Girodon to fully focus on his role as CEO of Datai Hotels and Resorts, driving growth and expansion for The ...

Langkawi is known as "the jewel of Kedah" and the island certainly earns its nickname. Located off the coast of the north-western Malaysian state, its white sandy beaches are lapped by turquoise ...

The Datai Pledge, the sustainability and conservation program of the Malaysian luxury rainforest resort The Datai Langkawi, has planted 1,500 seedlings within a mangrove forest in Langkawi's UNESCO ...

I'm floating in a crescent-shaped bay, its tropical south-east Asian Andaman Sea waters so deliciously tepid that you could safely bathe a new-born infant in them. On shore, a lone macaque scampers, ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. Langkawi is everything that Bali is not. The former is relatively undeveloped, with few of the flash resorts that have come to ...

The hostage incident takes place three days into my stay at The Datai, a sprawling resort on the wild northwestern tip of Malaysian holiday island Langkawi. The perpetrators are a troop of primates ...

My wooden villa stands on stilts, surrounded by towering trees that obscure the view to the ocean 200 yards away. At night, giant squirrels thud onto the shingle roof. By day, long-tailed macaques ...