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Whatever the outcome, it may be too late to save the tigers. They once rambled across most of Asia, from Siberia in the north to Indonesia in the south to Turkey in the west. Now they are confined to small, shrinking pockets of their forest habitat. The Caspian subspecies became extinct more than a decade ago. So did the Balinese and Javan cats. The survivors are impossible to count with any precision, but fewer than 650 Sumatran tigers remain and maybe 200 of Siberia's Amur, the world's largest cat. China has a few dozen left, and these isolated...
...group, so well traveled, in fact, that fossils from the species were first found thousands of miles away from its original home in Africa. In the 1890s, Eugene Dubois, an adventurous Dutch physician, joined his country's army as an excuse to get to the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). Dubois agreed with Charles Darwin's idea that early humans and great apes were closely related. Since the East Indies had orangutans, Dubois thought, they might have fossils of the "missing link...
Deadly Quake in Indonesia...
Helsinger said the conference inlcudedrepresentatives from Ghana, Indonesia, the UnitedKingdom and Mexico...
...FORTUNE 500 companies that do business in Southeast Asia, has conducted the only systematic survey of Vietnam's business opportunities; it expects roughly $2.6 billion worth of trade and investment to flow within two years and $8.2 billion within five. Even then, Vietnam would not be "a powerhouse like Indonesia and other ASEAN countries," Richardson admits, "but people expect it to become a significant trading partner...