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South Africa and Vietnam sign deal

Source: Mmegi Online, Dec 12 2012, 9:55am CST

JOHANNESBURG: South Africa has signed a deal with Vietnam to help curb the rising number of illegally slaughtered rhinos, officials announced on Monday. The price of rhino horn - used in traditional medicine in Asian c ...

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Australian speaker visits Vietnam

Source: SINA English  |   May 22 2013, 5:54am CDT

HANOI, May 22 (Xinhua) -- The Speaker of the Australian Parliament Anna Burke started her three-day visit to Vietnam Wednesday at the invitation of the Vietnamese National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung, local media repo ...

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2 hours ago

Train Rumbles Right Through Vietnam, Hanoi Neighbourhood (VIDEO)

Source: The Huffington Post  |   May 22 2013, 5:46am CDT

This video gives the phrase “living on the edge” new meaning – as a train squeaks tightly through a Vietnamese neighbourhood. The footage of the locomotive passing just inches from front doors and windows in ...

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22 weeks ago


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"Its implementation will of course be down to political will but the chances are much better if the orders come from high enough in the government"


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3 hours ago

Rhino horns 'worth more than gold' in Vietnam

Source: Al Jazeera  |   May 22 2013, 4:19am CDT

At first glance, the poster appears to be a typical advertisement for an African safari: a large rhinoceros set against a rugged, open terrain. Then you take a closer look and realise something is amiss. A ...

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3 hours ago

Can South Africa Help Nigeria to Industrialise?

Source: Humanitarian News  |   May 22 2013, 3:51am CDT

South Africa has pledged to help Nigeria make the automotive sector the West African nation’s flagship industrial target. Currently German car manufacturer BMW has a plant at Rosslyn near Pretoria. About 80 percent of the BMWs produced there a ...

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4 hours ago

1,000 rhinos butchered in just 18 months: Bid to stop poaching as species faces extinction

Source: Daily Express  |   May 22 2013, 3:38am CDT

More than 1,000 rhinos have been butchered in Africa in the past 18 months Conservationists racing to a build next generation camera trap in poaching hotspots have issued a desperate appeal for public support to secure crucial funds to save hu ...

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4 hours ago

Kenya misses out as Obama's Africa tour plays catch-up

Source: Mail and Guardian   |   May 22 2013, 3:37am CDT

As the US president gets ready for diplomatic missions around Africa next month, Obama's Africa tour will leave his ancestral homeland of Kenya as the biggest loser. Meanwhile, the winners are: Senegal, South Afr ...

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7 hours ago

Obama's SA visit: Time to renew the African dream

Source: News24  |   May 22 2013, 12:35am CDT

To some it didn't matter if an Apartheid activist was out of Jail in 1990, but to People like President Barrack Obama the rupture of the feeling of being free is what they dreamt about then and even now. The release of former S ...

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8 hours ago

Adverts Target Rhino Horn Consumers

Source: AllAfrica.com  |   May 21 2013, 10:56pm CDT

"Rhino horn is made of the same stuff as human nails. Still want some?" Conservation organisations WWF and TRAFFIC, as part of their campaign against the illegal wildlife trade, are running a series of myth-busting adverts aimed at en ...

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10 hours ago

World Briefing | Africa: South Africa: In Pistorius Cases, a Brother Is Cleared

Source: The New York Times  |   May 21 2013, 9:44pm CDT

Carl Pistorius — the brother of Oscar Pistorius , the double-amputee Olympic runner accused of murdering his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, on Valentine’s Day — was acquitted Tuesday of culpable homicide in a sep ...

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