from around the world, urgent 'permission to cross-post granted' diatribes, action alerts about legislation from Los Angeles to Laos. Their sheer volume aside, what fascinates me about these missives chronicling our animals and how we relate to them is
of Tam Dao National park are six endangered Asiatic black cubs and two adults smuggled either from neighbouring Laos or from southern Vietnam in the past seven months. Tuan Bendixsen from the Animals Asia Foundation helped to get the refuge started. He
to be in the country illegally to work mostly as laborers, joining hundreds of thousands from Cambodia and Laos. The illegal workers lack legal protections and are often ruthlessly exploited. Some of the Myanmar migrants flee their country to escape
nation to grow everything from rubber and pulp trees to organic vegetables and 'green' crops for alternative fuels. 'Laos will be Asean's orchard in a couple of years,' Chalaempon Pongchabubnapa, a commercial officer at the Thai Embassy, said of the
neighbors - illegal workers who lack legal protection and are often ruthlessly exploited. The economic refugees from Cambodia, Laos and especially Myanmar take menial and dangerous jobs shunned by Thais.The London-based human rights group Amnesty
resort island of Phuket. Prosperous Thailand is a magnet for people in the poorer neighboring countries of Cambodia, Laos and especially Myanmar - also known as Burma - who take menial and dangerous jobs shunned by Thais. 'Following voluntary migration
be working here illegally. Large numbers of illegal migrants also come from Thailand's other poor neighbors, Cambodia and Laos. The illegal workers lack legal protection and are often ruthlessly exploited. The incident was reminiscent of the deaths in
Laos 
