Vietnam’s taste for exotic meat threatens species
August 14, 2009
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As any visitor to Vietnam can confirm, its people have a remarkable taste for meals made from each and every creature. From snakes and spiders to monkeys and rats, there are few wild animals not prized when it comes to the cooking pot
Vietnam species ‘risk extinction’
August 13, 2009
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Experts in Vietnam have warned that the Vietnamese could be eating a number of wild species into extinction.
Plain-spoken US Senator Webb to visit Myanmar
August 13, 2009
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WASHINGTON (AFP) – Democratic US Senator Jim Webb, who hopes to meet Myanmar supremo Than Shwe later this week, is a gruff-talking former Marine and decorated Vietnam War veteran with a lifelong interest in Asia. Webb, 63, chairs the Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee on East Asia and Pacific affairs and was discussed at one point in 2008 as a possible running mate for President Barack Obama — but publicly ruled himself out. Webb, who represents Virginia, held a hearing of his panel in July to..