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...Vietnamese government dismisses reports of Montagnards' fleeing as "fabrications." According to Foreign Ministry spokesman Le Dung, "There is no reason for ethnic minority people in the Central Highlands to leave their homelands." One of those "fabrications" is a 40-year-old man from Gia Lai who took part in the Easter demonstrations. Asked why he left the Highlands, he recalls: "Police, soldiers and Vietnamese people came to our village and kicked in our doors and attacked us." Now, having trekked for days, he is hiding in Ratanakiri?some 600 km from Phnom Penh and the nearest office...
CRIMES OF PASSION Rough sex for many species can range from brutal love bites to lethal lust. Male dung flies, mountain sheep and some frogs, in their zeal to procreate, will swarm, harass and harm females, sometimes fatally. For Hawaiian monk seals, where males outnumber females 3 to 1, mating violence is so serious that biologists are worried that the species may be endangered...
...Given that he stood accused of "abusing democratic freedoms," the 10-month prison sentence handed down to Tran Dung Tien in Hanoi last Wednesday was light. Tien, 78, had openly criticized corruption in Vietnam's Communist Party, but he's no garden-variety dissident. Tien joined the revolt against the French in the 1940s, was a longtime Party member?and for a few years served as the personal bodyguard of Ho Chi Minh...
...first of those was a 1999 studio and home for the painter Chris Ofili, creator of the notorious Virgin Mary with elephant dung that enraged New York City's mayor Rudy Giuliani when it turned up in "Sensation." But the place that put Adjaye on the map was the so-called Elektra house, built for a pair of conceptual artists in the Whitechapel neighborhood that Jack the Ripper once prowled. It's plain at first sight that this is no cozy cottage. It's more like an urban battlement, a place that turns its face from what is mostly...
Thailand's love of gastronomic exotica extends to the foulest of fauna. Grasshoppers, water bugs and dung beetles are considered fair snacktime fare. Not on the tapas menu, however, are cockroaches. Too vile even for the liberal Thai palette? No, too adorable?for months, one of the trendiest pets to own in Thailand has been the Madagascar Giant Hissing Cockroach, an imported species that can grow to centimeters in length and sells in pet shops for $1.20. "They're clean, they're cute and I love the sound they make," explains a proud local pest owner. Besides hissing, they also...