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November 8, 2009

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Typhoon Exposes Illegal Logging in Vietnam

Illegal logging © Wikimedia Commons

HANOI, Oct 30 (IRIN) - While residents in Vietnam's low-lying coastal provinces were riding out Typhoon Ketsana, few knew that upriver the storm had unleashed a new hazard.

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