China considered using drone in Myanmar to kill wanted drug lord

http://economicrisis.com/china-considered-using-drone-in-myanmar-to-kill-wanted-drug-lord/546 China considered using drone in Myanmar to kill wanted drug lord A drone strike to kill Naw Kham in Myanmar was ruled out. The hunt for a Myanmese drug lord wanted for...

Dominoes won’t fall

Revisiting the Domino Theory President Eisenhower introduced the domino theory back in the 1950’s when America was a linear thinking government, IMO. Some people might argue that it still is a one dimensional,...

Saola Sighting: Rare Asian 'Unicorn' Sighting Confirmed

The Saola is Considered One of the World's Rarest Animals They haven't been seen in over a decade, but scientists have confirmed that they had a sighting of a Saola in August in Laos. They are sometimes called an...

Protesters turn pirates in immigration centre demo

In a move, reminiscent of pirate movies from the past, demonstrators from Greece, Germany, Italy and France in a flotilla of small boats took to the sea in order to blockade the Greek island of Lesvos (Mytilini)....

Laos: Samantha Orobator, British Drug Smuggler, Sentenced to Life

Samantha Orobator, a British drug smuggler who received widespread publicity when she became pregnant while imprisoned in a jail in Laos, has been given a life sentence for heroin trafficking. "A British Embassy spokesman said the verdict on the 20-year-old from London was...

Hmong refugees at risk of humanitarian crisis - MSF withdraws

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), or Doctors without Borders as they are otherwise known, runs the risk of creating a humanitarian crisis if it goes ahead with plans to withdraw from a Hmong refugee camp in Northern Thailand in protest at the Thai governments treatment of...

Global Efforts To Protect Endangered Freshwater Giants

The National Geographic Society is collaborating with the World Wildlife Fund by launching the MegaFishes Project, an ambitious four-year effort to protect the Earth’s largest freshwater fish, while raising...

CIA: Secret Operations, Drug Money

" By Farzana Shah Monday, 23 February 2009. In Afghanistan, U.S./NATO have put the blame on Taliban for poppy cultivation to finance their resistance to allied forces. Ironically, it was only in Taliban era when the world had seen a sharp decline in opium crop in...

Trekking in Phongsali

“We had a beautiful view over the valley and the endless banks of clouds for about ten minutes before we descended into clouds and I had my last glimpse of blue sky for three days.” - Peter Keusgen describes his trekking tour in Phongsali. December 16th 2006 On the...

Laos - hill tribes : Akha, Khamu, Thai dam

As always I hope you and yours are doing well. This is the 4th and final blog on laos titled hill tribes. Currently I am in northern Vietnam on a 3 day motorcycle trek. Today is day one and if tomorrow and the next day are the same as today I should have a few great photos to...

Luang Prabang

Luang phrabang Hiya Everyone! Dury and I are currently in Luang Prabang, in Laos! Since writing last time, we caught the bus from Chiang Mai to Chiang Rai and stayed a couple of nights there. Chiang Rai didn't really seem to be anything special. Just a smaller...

Many New Species Found in Greater Mekong River Valley

The Greater Mekong River Valley has just once again proven how important it is to save and preserve, as almost a thousand endangered or 'extinct' species have been discovered there, including striped rabbits,...

World - 100 countries sign cluster bomb ban; US, Russia, China refuse

" OSLO, NORWAY: Nations began signing a treaty banning cluster bombs on Wednesday in a move that supporters hope will shame the US, Russia and China and other non-signers into abandoning weapons blamed for maiming and killing civilians. Norway, which began the drive to...

AIDS will spread like ‘bushfire’ in India: UN

India has one of the highest HIV/AIDS patients base and the United States National Intelligence Council predicts that the number of people infected in India could jump to between 20 million and 25...

Lost in Halong Bay

When the bus pulled up to the departure point for Halong Bay I was a little put-off by the incredible number of tourists. But I had heard that Vietnamese drive boats the same way they drive motorbikes and I was...

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