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12/31/97--Myanamr to Privatize Domestic Timber Trading

12/29/97--Indonesian Logging Workers Released in Cambodia

12/23/97--ASEAN Adopts Blueprint to Battle Haze in Economic Crisis

12/22/97--Southeast Asia to Act on Fire-driven Smog

12/17/97--El Nino's Tantrums Disrupt Economies & Lives

12/17/97--Cambodia's King says Stop Logging for Hill People

12/15/97--Cambodia Could Lose Forests to Illegal Loggers

12/12/97--China Bans hunting in its Largest Rainforest

12/12/97--Rare Java Rhinoceros Footprints Found in Vietnam

12/7/97--Trees Uprooted for Gas Pipeline

12/7/97--Wild Gingko Trees Discovered in Southwest China

12/4/97--Thai Villagers Move to Protect Wild Elephants

12/2/97--Guangzhou in South China Becoming Greener

12/1/97--The Year the Sky Turned Yellow

11/29/97--Asian Pollution is widening its Deadly Reach

11/28/97--A Pollution Disaster Hovers Across Asia

11/25/97--China to Try Cloning of Rare Monkeys

11/20/97--Environment Poses Cruel Dilemma when Trying to End Poverty

11/14/97--Cambodian Wildlife Practices under Scrutiny

11/13/97--Women's Group Seek Preservation of Cebu's remaining Pocket Forest

11/6/97--World Bank Attacked for Promoting Controversial Dam

11/5/97--China Defends Three Gorges Dam from Environmental Critics

11/4/97--China Twisting Arms to Invest in Dam Area

11/3/97--China's Three Gorges Dam Gets New $220 Million Loan

11/3/97--China Dam Spells Apocalypse for Many

11/3/97--U.S. Secretary of State Starts Pacific Tour Stressing Environment

10/29/97--Chinese Lawmakers Mull Amendment to Curb Indiscriminate Logging

10/24/97--Cambodia Hires U.S. Firm to Stem Illegal Logging

10/20/97--Cambodian Wildlife Running Scared from Rampant Poaching

10/13/97--Singapore Issues Health Alert as Haze Returns

10/12/97--SE Asia Could Have Been Spared From the Smog-paper

10/10/97--End of South East Asian Smog in Sight, Experts Say

10/10/97--U.S. to Help Clear Asian Haze

10/9/97--Asian Fires Raise Respiratory Risk

9/27/97--SAKINA Call to Action in Response to Asian Forest Fires

9/24/97--Japanese Trade and Consumption of Tropical Timber Resources

8/30/97--Experts Say China Wolf Can Curb Deer Damage

8/22/97--New Species of Deer Discovered in Vietnam

8/22/97--New Mammal Species Discovered in Vietnam

8/6/97--Conservationists Who Are Enemies of the Earth

7/29/97--Experts Say China Wolf can Curb Japan Deer Image

7/28/97--Laos Hopes World Bank Will Bless Dam

7/16/97--China Steps up Wetland Protection

7/14/97--Laos Renews Appeal For Dam

7/14/97--Activists Seize Illegal Teak! Defend Burma's Peoples and Rainforests

6/25/97--Environmentalists Call for Boycott on Burmese Teak

6/24/97--Cambodia Sharply Increases Logging Royalties

6/16/97--Laos Dam Project Expected To Stem Flow of Lost Revenue

6/8/97--Peter Dauvergne's New Book about Japan and Deforestation in Southeast Asia

6/4/97--U.S. lawmakers move to save Asian elephants

5/2/97--Loggers Use Loophole to Decimate Cambodia's Disappearing Forest

4/25/97--Thai Forests Vanish at Alarming Rate

4/16/97--Did ABB Pay WWF Half a Million Dollars to Keep it Quiet?

4/1/97--Reforestation Loan for Vietnam

3/29/97--"Teak is Torture" & Burma's Reign of Terror

3/26/97--New Pig Species Found in Vietnam's 'Lost World'

3/23/97--Observer article: Save the Rhino, Kill the People

3/18/97--China- Environment: First Ever NGO Challenges Traditions

3/9/97--Problem of Illegal Hunting in Vietnam

3/3/97--Cambodian Official Agrees Logging Problems Linger

2/26/97--Environmentalist 'Davids' Oppose Goliath Dam Projects

2/25/97--Cambodia Threatens More Logging if Loan Cut

2/16/97--U.S. Clearance of Thailand in Logging Dispute Is Questioned by Some Experts

2/6/97--Environment Protest in Taiwan Turns Violent

2/4/97--Taiwan Villagers, Police Clash over Pulp Mill Plan

2/2/97--Heavy Logging Continues at Laotian Dam Site

1/29/97--Laos Says Dam Will Benefit Conservation Area

1/25/97--Military and Thai Governmental Involvement in Cambodian Logging

1/24/97--Military "Involved" in Illegal Logging

1/21/97--Thais Defend Role in Cambodia Logging

1/15/97--Mitsubishi Boycott in Full Force

1/7/97--Chicago Tribune's Three Gorges Dam Report

1/3/97--China Says its Pollution is not a Threat to the World

12/25/96--Southeast Asia in 1997, Cities Choke and Forests Vanish

12/12/96--Burma Activists Block Unocal Truck in L.A.

12/12/96--Mitsubishi in Burma Forest Worries San Francisco

12/4/96--Mitsubishi Campaign Update: 12/4/96

11/26/96--NGO's Concerned Over Asian Development Bank's Support for Dams

11/16/96--Conservation International Lists the Philippines as a "hot spot"

11/6/95--ASIA-INDIGENOUS PEOPLES: Rights Fight Rages Across the Region

11/3/96--Protesters March in Cambodia to Protest Illegal Logging

10/29/96--Stops Mitsubishi's Massive Raw Log Export Ship

8/16/95--Mitsubishi Corporation sells 40% stake in Daiya Malaysia

11/2/96--Cambodia Announces Plan to Protect Wildlife

10/26/96--Vietnam's Jungles in an Ecological Race Against Time

10/25/96--Cambodia Vows to Halt Illegal Logging

10/22/96--International Protests Against Mitsubishi's Forest Conduct

10/21/96--Cambodia's King Laments Loss of Forests

10/8/96--China to Shut Paper Mills to Clean Up Yangtze River

10/2/96--Thai Forestry Sector Master Plan Flawed

10/1/96--Karen in Thailand Struggle for Sustainable Lifestyles

9/26/96--Vietnam Says Indochina's Forests Need Protection

8/27/96--Lao Dam's Environmental Assessment "Fallacious and Untenable"

8/1/96--Cambodian Prime Minister Calls for Ceiling on Logging

7/24/96--Mitsubishi Research Update: 7/24/96

7/7/96--Cambodian Aid Seen Continuing Despite Environmental Destruction

6/17/96--Pakistan: World's Oldest Juniper Forest Threatened

6/16/96--Concern Over Ecological Effects of Construction for 1998 Winter Olympics

6/12/96--WWF Welcomes Commitment for Vietnamese Forest Protection

5/30/96--US Export-Import Bank Says No to China's Three Gorges Dam

5/29/96--A Call for Help in Saving the Amami Rabbit

5/10/95--Mitsubishi Campaign Update: May 10, 1995

4/25/96--Japan Tropical Timber Campaign Update

4/22/96--Mitsubishi Campaign Research Update: 4/22/96

4/14/96--College Activists Try to Keep Mitsubishi off Their Campuses

4/11/96--Thai Loggers Cut Wood Despite Ban

4/7/96--Chinese Logging in Yunnan Effecting Endangered Monkeys

4/5/96--Cambodia's Logging Contracts Slammed

4/4/96--China Suspends Logging of Primeval Forests

4/1/96--11 Arrests So Far In Nationwide Mitsubishi Boycott Campaign

4/96--Japan's Tropical Timber Imports for 1988-1995

4/96--Japan Opens to U.S. Lumber

3/15/96--Economic Change China's Only Pollution Solution

3/3/96--Cottage Industries Blamed for Pollution in China

3/96--Mitsubishi Boycott in Japan Launched by Peaceful Protest in Osaka

3/96--Japan's 1994 Tropical Timber Import Figures, PNG Increases Percentage

2/24/96--China's Three Gorges Dam Ahead of Schedule

2/21/96--Cambodia to Sell of Its Remaining Forests

2/20/96--Philippine Tribesmen Accuse Mining Company of Polluting Land

2/17/96--Thai Villagers Protest Against Eucalyptus Plantations

2/4/96--Asian Farmers Struggle Against Transnationals

2/96--Mitsubishi Boycott Builds with Haiku Project

2/96--Japan Rainforest Campaign Update

1/28/96--China Snares 925 Falcon-Poachers

1/21/96--China Seizes Nearly Ton of Smuggled Elephant Tusks

1/20/96--Rapid Forest Loss in the Phillipines

1/17/96--China Seeks International Help to Save Rare Tigers

1/12/96--Cyanide Seen Near Thai Beaches

1/6/96--Vietnam Says Pollutions Levels Alarmingly High

1/4/96--China to Investigate Forest Felling in Southwest

12/31/95--China Sentences Four to Death for Elephant Hunting

12/15/96--Cambodia: The Logging Fields

12/95--Boycott Mitsubishi Campaign Update

10/95--Japanese Biodiversity Strategy Revealed to Widespread Protest

8/95--Open Letter to Japanese Development Aid

7/95--Japan's Forests Growing While Other Countries Forest Disappearing

6/95--Thailand's Energy Tentacles: Power Plants, Dams And Disaster

4/95--Berkeley Bars Burma Business

4/95--Asian Forests Disappearing at Alarming Rate

4/95--Japan and the World's Forests: Call for Forest Action

3/95--International Action on Japan and Forests

3/95--Mitsubishi Campaign Update: March 1995

3/95--Asian Development Bank Unveils New Forestry Policy

2/95--RAN Discloses Mitsubishi Exports Raw U.S. Logs

11/94--Group Awarded World Bank Laos Forest Project Questioned

9/94--Al-Pac Announces Intent to Sue Western Canada Wilderness Committee

9/94--Improve Japan's Official Development Assistance

6/94--Burma's Increased Deforestation, UNOCAL Involvement

5/94--Boycott Mitsubishi-Giant of the Timber Trade

4/94--Japan Group Targets Local Government Consumption

4/94--Mitsubishi Raises the Stakes with 15 Arrests in San Diego

4/94--Unocal Linked to Forest Ruin and Forced Labor in Burma

3/94--Japanese Rainforest Group's Letters

3/94--Halt Local Governments' Tropical Timber Use in Japan!

3/94--Greenies in Log Talks with Overseas Buyers

12/93--Reduce Local Tropical Timber Use

12/93--Japan's 1993 Tropical Timber Import Figures

12/93--Mitsubishi tied to MacMillan Bloedel

12/93--Mitsubishi Chopstick Factory Report Released

12/93--Mitsubishi in Canada Update: Canadians Confront Mitsubishi Executives

10/93--Burma Action Alert

4/93--Sarawak Campaign Committee/Japan and the World's Forests

2/93--Laos: World Bank Rushing Through Forestry Loan

11/92--Mitsubishi in Papua New Guinea

9/92--Mitsubishi and Hyundai

3/92--Greenpeace Documents Exploitation of Burmese Forests

12/91--Stop Burmese Teak Imports

11/91--Philippines: Rights Violations Against Environmentalists

11/91--Philippines: Green Priests Targetted

9/91--Philippines Cracks Down on Illegal Logging

9/91--Laos Orders Ban on Logging

8/91--FOE: Saving The Tropical Rainforests

4/91--Japanese Conglomerates "Mining" Papua New Guinea Forests

2/91--007 and Teakfinger

4/90--International Ban Japan from the Rainforest Day a Great Success

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