Michael Brosowski started the Blue Dragon Children's Foundation to help Vietnamese youth get off the streets. Since 2004, he and his group have helped more than 350 children find safe shelter and enroll in school.
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Vietnam is setting up a nature reserve to protect one of the world's rarest animals - an antelope-like creature called the saola.
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Nestled in the mountain foothills of a remote province in central Vietnam, one of the country's most important archaeological discoveries in a century has recently come to light.
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Vietnam authorities arrested more than a dozen restaurant owners for planning to serve meals of pangolins, porcupines, mouse deer, monitor lizards, bears, snakes, and other rare animals—amounting to more than 850 pounds of meat.
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As international attention shifts to Copenhagen and the coming United Nations conference on climate change, reforestation is emerging as a critical issue for the environment and as a source for government revenue.
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Traditional brick school facades could become a thing of the past as educational institutions aim for sustainability.
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United Nations -
This holiday season, scores of projects aimed at improving the education of school children around the world are set to profit from an IKEA initiative to the tune of €5 million (almost $7 million), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) announced today.
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TAM DAO, Vietnam (Reuters) - A furry black bear cub playfully clasps a rubber pet toy between its paws and eats fruit in its new home -- Vietnam's first refuge for bears rescued from abusive traffickers of bile used in traditional medicines.
The bear is one of four 50 kg (110 lb) endangered Asiatic black cubs and two adults that were smuggled either from neighboring Laos or from southern Vietnam in the past seven months, and confiscated by the authorities.
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Girardot, Colombia -
Forget steel and concrete. The building material of choice for the 21st century might just be bamboo.
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Hat Creek, California -
The switch has been thrown on a telescope specifically designed to seek out alien life.
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