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US President Barack Obama is sending State Secretary Hillary Clinton to Myanmar (formerly Burma) to pursue what he calls "flickers of progress" in the country that endured five decades of global isolation and military oppression
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A large population of 455 individuals of the rare Northern white-cheeked gibbons have been discovered in the forests of Vietnam, near the border with Laos. This community amounts to about two-thirds of the members of the species existing in Vietnam.
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A Laotian man confessed to axing his pregnant wife to death because he wanted to use the fetus to make a lucky charm to help him win the lottery.
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Crested Gibbons are the world's least known-about apes, and they are also the world's most endangered apes. Renowned Gibbon expert Thomas Geissmann has called for 'urgent action' to save the seven species of Crested Gibbon.
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US president Barack Obama has been invited by the heads of states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to attend its Summit in Vietnam to address economic recovery and coping with climate change in the region before the end of the year.
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A drought affecting Southeast Asia for the past six months shows no signs of letting up any time soon. Affected countries include China, Viet Nam, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar and Lao PDR.
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The more than 4,000 Hmong people forcibly deported by Thailand have arrived in Laos, despite protests from rights groups and the UN. Among the 4,000 is a group of 158 Hmong who are officially recognised as refugees by the UN.
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In an operation to shutdown a camp that houses 4,000 ethnic Hmong refugees, the Thailand army will begin to deport them back to Laos, which could lead to their prosecution.
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Discovered in 1992 at the hostile areas of Laos and Vietnam, the Saola antelope is at the narrow edge of extinction, according to experts.
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The U.S. army officer convicted on 22 counts of murder after he took part in the 1968 massacre of civilians in the village of My Lai in Vietnam, has spoken of the matter for the first time in public and told of his remorse at what happened.
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