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Asian swiftlet build nests using their saliva. like a bat, they make these nests up high to lay their eggs. Poachers come and take the nests down while destroying the eggs for the $5000 a pound bounty that comes with it. According to Mercury News: “In Asia, it is a $5 billion industry, said Le Danh Hoang, who founded Hoang Yen, a Ho Chi Minh City-based bird’s nest business with annual revenues of $3 million and growing rapidly. In Vietnam, it’s a $200 million industry, behind Indonesia, the world’s largest producer, Malaysia and Thailand, he said.” Le harvests the nests without killing the birds. He even builds the climate controlled and structures for the birds and has 500 of them in Vietnam. The entrepreneur not only has the nest farms, but also has a restaurant where you can eat a $26 soup. This guy has the nests all figured out. Anyone ever try bird nest? (Mercury News – Bird Nest)
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No! Don’t use it as an arm rest! Nguyen Duy Hai got this big boy removed… but jokes aside, Nguyen’s life sounds like hell. No help including doctors who refused and no money. Yet a doctor, Dr. McKay McKinnon got the job done. He’s the tumor killer, and has performed similar surgeries in the past. Now, Nguyen’s his life can start again. He’s only 31. (CNN – Tumor)
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It must be military thursday today. Jane Fonda’s Hanoi bunker found. It wasn’t exactly hers, but it was a 500 square foot space that hid Americans to safety during the Christmas bombings. It was just found at the bottom of the Metropole hotel as construction was going on. The bunker hid many including Joan Baez, a folk singer who happened to be there for anti war protests. What will happen? Most likely nothing. Perhaps the high end hotel should just take great pics and document it. (Guardian UK – Bunker)
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Heart warming tale of a bi-racial Vietnamese man who reunites with his mother after 32 years. Johnathon Freeman was part of Operation Babylift which sent 3000 children around the world since it was thought that the North Vietnamese army were going to kill bi-racial children. The internet does it again. Here’s the video. Yes, the broadcast should have been better. Man Reunited with Mom in Vietnam after 32 Years: MyFoxLA.com
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