Highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza, otherwise known as Avian Flu, emerged in Hong Kong in 1996-97, and by June 2007 had resulted in outbreaks in poultry or wild birds in nearly sixty countries and 317 human cases, including 191 deaths. South-East and East Asia were the earliest affected regions. Between the end of 2003 and the beginning of 2004, Avian Flu infections of poultry were suddenly...

The Amazon rainforest is one of the world’s greatest natural wonders and holds great importance and significance for the world’s environmental balance. Around 60% of the Amazon rainforest is located in the Brazilian territory. The two biggest states of the Amazon region are Amazonas (the upper Amazon) and Pará (the lower Amazon), which together account for around 73% of the Brazilian Legal Amaz...

This study uses the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model to study the dynamic determinant factors that influence both long and short-term international tourism demand in Cambodia from 12 countries. The annual time series data (1994–2013) are used in this study. The study finds that only the international tourism demand model of Australia, Canada, Thailand, the United Kingdom, and USA are...