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...dried up for the most popular animals, and traders are forced to go farther afield to secure their prey. Poachers looking to fill orders for the popular pig-nosed turtle, which is prized both as a pet and for its meat, have to venture as far as the remote Indonesian province of Papua. Those pursuing live reef fish, a Chinese delicacy particularly popular in booming southern China, have appeared in the Solomon Islands and on the island of Mauritius off the coast of Africa...
...illegal wildlife smuggled out of Southeast Asia is headed for China, says Steve Galster, who heads WildAid's Bangkok office. Illegal traders have had to adapt to the changed marketplace. "I had to take a crash course in Mandarin," laughs Hendrawan, an affable young Indonesian who runs a sprawling wildlife processing facility in South Sumatra. "My family is Chinese but we don't speak it at home, so when business began to go through the roof a few years ago, I had to take lessons...
...bird flu have occurred in Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Russia, Thailand, Vietnam, and possibly Laos. And, of 112 laboratory-confirmed cases in humans, 57 people died from the disease. With no known capacity of person-to-person transmission, human cases of the virus have been relatively isolated, but the Indonesian Health Minister, Siti Fadilah Supari, warned of more possible victims in her country and forewarned the change to a humanly transmittable strain is “just a matter of time...
...sleep with her. [But] I also am happy because I want to see Aceh like it was, at peace." MUZAKIR,a member of Indonesia's rebel Free Aceh Movement (G.A.M.), on surrendering his rifle to foreign cease-fire monitors as part of a historic peace agreement with the Indonesian government...
...have resulted from failures in the air conditioning system. The Venezuelan twin-engine failure could have been either because of fuel contamination or maintenance malfunction (and is the second fatal flight this year by low-cost provider West Caribbean Airlines). While inspections have not yielded clear results for the Indonesian flight, the aging Boeing was nearly 25 years old—and scheduled to keep flying for eleven more years. I suspect that these accidents were not altogether unavoidable given more careful maintenance or a less thrifty schedule of plane replacement...