05 December 94
VIETNAM: HONG KONG FIRM STARTS VIETNAM MONKEY BUSINESS.

HANOI, Dec 5 (Reuter) - A Hong Kong company, Vanny Chian Technology, has
started a monkey farm in southern Vietnam which it plans to make one of the
world's biggest, it was reported on Monday.
With a Vietnamese minority partner, it has set up a $2 million company
called Nafofanny in Dong Nai province to breed and house monkeys used for
scientific purposes, according to the Saigon Newsreader, a daily news
digest published in Ho Chi Minh City.
The project went into operation late last month with the aim of
establishing farms with cages for 3,l00 monkeys, expanding to l5,000 in
l996, it said.

06 December 94
VIETNAM: ANGER AT MONKEY FARM PLAN.

By KEITH WALLIS and agencies.
WILDLIFE campaigners are angry at a plan by a Hong Kong company to set up
one of the world's biggest monkey farms in Vietnam.
The creatures will be sold to pharmaceutical and medical research
laboratories around the world where they will be used to test drugs and
other products.
"It is terrible, terrible. There is no end to the ingenuity of man when it
comes to making money and being cruel," said Dr John Wedderburn, a former
committee member of the RSPCA.
Vanny Chain Technology has set up a US$2 million (HK$l5.45 million) joint
venture company, Nafofanny, with a division of Vietnam's Forestry Ministry
to create a network of monkey farms throughout southern Vietnam.
The largest will be about 40 kilometres from Ho Chi Minh City in Dong Nai
province.
A director of Vanny Chain Technology, Daniel Chen, was unrepentant about
the outrage the firm's farm plan would cause.
"We have got not a problem with that because what we are doing is very
humane and it is for the welfare of human beings," he said.

SOURCE: SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST