Brigitte Bardot: provocative on film, but even more provocative for animals, for more than twice as long PARIS, France––Brigitte Bardot, 91, a fashion model for four years, a film actress for 20 years, and a full-time animal advocate for the last 52 years of her life, died on December 28, 2025 of undisclosed causes at […]
“Super Typhoon Ragasa” animal welfare casualties apparently light
“Super Typhoon Ragasa” hit six nations in four days before blowing out HONG KONG, MANILA––Super Typhoon Ragasa, expected to be one of the deadliest and most damaging typhoons on record, instead seems to have proved chiefly that weather is still often unpredictable, and as regards animals, that animal welfare organizations in Southeast Asia are well […]
Dog-eating in China & Gadhi Mai mass sacrifice in Nepal both near an end
Decline of the activist & mass media exaggeration factors reflects the decline of the bloody realities BEIJING, KATHMANDU––Major good news out of China and Nepal on December 9 and December 11, 2024 came disguised to the point of invisibility for those unfamiliar with the details. Even as animal advocates wring hands and weep over sensational […]
Asian Animal Protection Network founder John Wedderburn, 83
Medical doctor John Wedderman quietly linked 759 Asian animal advocates into the beginnings of an international movement HONG KONG––Asian Animal Protection Network founder John Wedderburn, 83, among the most influential yet least well-known builders of the global animal rights and humane movements, died on November 25, 2024 at his retirement home in West Java, Indonesia. […]
“Run Spot Run” from Trump/Vance bogus claims about dog & cat eating
Hours after J.D. Vance eats false allegation about immigrants devouring dogs & cats in Springfield, Ohio, Donald Trump repeats it in debate against Kamala Harris PHILADELPHIA––Former U.S. president Donald Trump gave away his strategy only moments into debating vice president Kamala Harris on the evening of September 10, 2024. “It’s like four sentences like Run […]
Hong Kong: no-kill beacon to the world or hub of grand scale scamming?
The 121-year-old Hong Kong SPCA has a hard-earned great reputation, but about half of the purported no-kill shelters in the New Territories do not even exist HONG KONG––Is Hong Kong a beacon of hope for no-kill animal control campaigns worldwide, including in the U.S., or is Hong Kong actually the hub of scamming in the […]
Hanoi bans dog & cat meat trade; Philippines & India bust dog meat dealers
Stopping rabies & attracting tourists motivate government in Vietnamese capital HANOI, Vietnam––102 human rabies deaths in 29 administrative jurisdictions during 2023 have reportedly moved the city government in Hanoi, the national capital of Vietnam, to ban the dog and cat meat trade––coincidentally, almost on the eve of the annual dog-eating festival held toward the end […]
New rabies prevention rules for “rescue” puppy imports; HSUS squawks
CDC crackdown might encourage more overseas vaccination & s/n work, but may mean fewer photo-ops WASHINGTON D.C.––Pandering to the “rescue” community, including publicity stunt “rescues” by the Humane Society of the U.S. itself, instead of looking toward the greater good of dogs both in the U.S. and abroad, HSUS president Kitty Block and Sara Amundson, […]
Life of Pei: the battle for compassion; my story and journey so far
by Pei Feng Su Lantern Publishing & Media P.O. Box 1350 Woodstock, NY 12498 www.lanternpm.org Reviewed by Merritt Clifton The animal advocacy world knows Pei Feng Su as the intensely hard-working, politely amiable, fluently multi-lingual, supremely capable and outwardly poised founder of ACTAsia for Animals, a humane education society with offices in London, Taipei, and […]
Hong Kong busts expose scams, wildlife traffic, & dog-and-cat meat trade
Criminals don’t stop at just one type of animal & human exploitation HONG KONG; HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam––Recent busts in Hong Kong brought crime, rabies, wildlife trafficking, illegal immigration, and the dog and cat meat trade together as never before––and more may soon follow. “Law enforcement agencies in Hong Kong have arrested four asylum […]