China demand for luxury furniture 'decimating rosewood'

Monday, May 12, 2014 - 15:01 in Mathematics & Economics

Runaway Chinese demand for luxury furniture is spurring illegal logging across Southeast Asia, stripping the region of precious Siamese rosewood and driving a chain of cross-border corruption and violence, environmentalists said Monday.

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