AsiaWATCH
COVID Wildlife
PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA – Illegal wildlife markets could be consigned to the dustbins of history within five years amid a public outcry over their capacity to spread disease, and a widespread belief that the trade […]
Wildlife
AsiaWATCH
Hunt for Rare Indochina Wildlife Yields Results
FAR EAST CORRESPONDENT — Way out on the remote borders that divide Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam sits the Virachey National Park (VNP), one of the last bastions for endangered Indochinese wildlife and the focus of […]
AsiaWATCH
Hazy Business, Shallow Governments
This article first appeared in The Edge Review. By Luke Hunt ASIAWATCH — Back in 1997 a rather irate Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammad put a lid on local reporting of an unprecedented phenomenon. Burning […]
Foreign Correspondence
Last Days of a Valley Damned
FAR EAST CORRESPONDENT — Yong Yim’s voice rises to a high-pitched quiver when she talks about a planned dam in the Areng Valley that would inundate land her family has inhabited for hundreds of years […]
Foreign Correspondence
Seized Wildlife Trapped
FAR EAST CORRESPONDENT — The death of an elephant taken in a raid on a private elephant park in Kanchanaburi province in April last year highlights the strain on state agencies charged with taking custody […]