Highlights from the 2006 Tri Cities, TN Dragon Boat Festival. A team sport that promotes team spirit and camaraderie, dragon boating is heralded as "the next big thing," according to a Time magazine article. The 2007 race is scheduled for September 15, 2007.

Hong Kong, 19 June 2007. Hong Kong's premier Tuen Ng dragon boat festival celebrates its 40th anniversary today in Stanley with a record number of teams taking part. 208 teams, representing more than 4,000 paddlers, will take to the water at the AIA Stanley International Dragon Boat Championships 2007, forming the largest and most colourful celebration of the traditional Chinese festival held in the territory.

Some of the wild creatures of Indonesia, starting with the Komodo Dragon, which can be 10 feet (3 meters) long and which can attack and eat humans; and ending with the Orang Utan. Orang-utans usually live on their own. Recently, 80 per cent of the orang-utan habitat has disappeared, due to logging, farming and plantations. The market in orang-utans for pets thrives in Taiwan, where the population of orang-utans per square kilometre in the capital, Taipei, has been estimated to be greater than in their natural habitat. Many thousands of monkeys, including Macaques from Indonesia, are used in cruel animal experiments.