VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/Asia News Network): Laos and South Korea are partnering in tourism, cultural and industrial exchanges between the two countries, with a view to bringing more Korean tourists to Laos.
Known only by his identity code, ID#35 was the last individual of a doomed subpopulation of freshwater Irrawaddy dolphins (Orcaella brevirostris). He was the sole occupant of a deep pool in the Mekong River that spans the border between Cambodia and Laos, and fought for several weeks against lacerations to his tail from entanglement in […]