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Vietnam War-era shell explodes at school

AP News 13 days ago

Vietnam War-era artillery shell explodes at school, terrifying students Officials say a Vietnam War-era artillery shell has exploded in a school yard, shattering windows and terrifying hundreds of students. Principal Ho Dac Thiet says the explosion occurred Wednesday at the Nguyen Hue ...

Vietnam reburies mummified corpse of ancient king

AFP Global Edition 14 days ago

The mummified corpse of a Vietnamese king who died hundreds of years ago was reburied on Monday, half a century after farmers accidentally dug it up. State television showed a red cloth, decorated with dragons, being draped over the coffin at the ...

Indochinese tigers on brink of extinction: WWF

Reuters Environmental Online Report 14 days ago

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Tigers in the Greater Mekong region are facing extinction, their numbers down more than 70 percent in slightly more than a decade due to poachers and habitat destruction, conservationists say. A new report by wildlife group WWF says tiger ...

Mekong tiger population at 'crisis point': WWF

AFP Global Edition 15 days ago

Governments must act decisively to prevent the extinction of tigers in Southeast Asia's Greater Mekong region, where numbers have plunged more than 70 percent in 12 years, the WWF said Tuesday. The wild tiger population across Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam ...

Mekong tiger population plunges to 'crisis point': WWF

AFP Global Edition 15 days ago

Governments must act decisively to prevent the extinction of tigers in Southeast Asia's Greater Mekong region, where numbers have plunged more than 70 percent in 12 years, the WWF said Tuesday. The wild tiger population across Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam ...

Award-winning Vietnam writer to be tried: lawyer

AFP Asian Edition 15 days ago

An award-winning Vietnamese writer is to be tried on Friday for "propaganda against the state", her lawyer said, in the latest case of a crackdown on democracy activists in the communist nation. Pham Thanh Nghien's hearing will take place in the northern ...

Vietnam Asia Milking Bear Bile

AP News 15 days ago

Asiatic moon bear pokes from a trailer in a farm in Khanh Binh village, Tan Uyen, Binh Duong province, Vietnam, Monday, Jan. 18, 2010. 19 rare Asiatic moon bears awaiting their next gall bladder milking. These bears were found this way on ...

Influential Buddhist pleads for religious freedom in Vietnam

AFP Asian Edition 16 days ago

One of the world's most influential Buddhist monks made a plea for religious freedom in Vietnam Monday after his followers were forced from two temples. Devotees of French-based Zen master and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh say they have gone underground in ...

Global lawyers' group says barred from Vietnam trial

AFP Asian Edition 18 days ago

Observers from a global association of lawyers were barred last week from a controversial Vietnamese trial at which four dissidents were jailed, the group said Saturday. The International Bar Association's (IBA's) Human Rights Institute said two observers it sent to monitor the ...

19 bears rescued from bear bile farm in Vietnam

AP News 18 days ago

Thirst for bear bile grows in Asia; 19 bears rescued in Vietnam after being milked for years The three tractor-trailer containers sat in a row, divided with metal partitions into 19 tiny, sweltering cells. Massive claws and furry black noses poked between ...

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