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Belitung

British

/ bɪˈliːtʊŋ /

noun

another name for Billiton

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Belitung

Residents first spotted the fire approaching their village in Bangka Belitung province on Saturday and tried to put it out themselves with portable water pumps.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia launched a search operation near Belitung island in the Java Sea.

From US News ● Dec. 29, 2014

It was roughly halfway between Surabaya and Singapore when it went missing in bad weather, somewhere from Tanjung Pandan on Indonesia's Belitung island to Pontianak, in West Kalimantan, Borneo.

From Reuters ● Dec. 28, 2014

A long, boot-shaped belt of the metal stretches from Burma all the way down through Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia, with Bangka and its sister island Belitung comprising its toe.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 23, 2012

The meeting with all producers and Bangka Belitung Governor Eko Maulana Ali will discuss plans to fix export quotas and set up a local market as an alternative to the LME, Irawan said.

From BusinessWeek ● Oct. 31, 2011

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