SINGAPORE – “Every night the civets play and fight in my ceiling… and they poop everywhere," said 83-year-old Mdm Tannie Tan, a resident of Jalan Chempaka Puteh, a neighbourhood in Bedok that has ...

Racing against a self-imposed deadline, authorities in southern China drowned or electrocuted the first of thousands of civet cats Tuesday in an urgent effort to eliminate a possible source of the ...

The civet cat has a definite image problem. Nine months ago, the animals were banished as suspected spreaders of the SARS virus, only to be back on the menu after the outbreak subsided. Now they and ...

WASHINGTON – The United States has imposed an immediate embargo on the import of civet cats (search) because of suspicions that the mongoose-like animal has spread the SARS (search) virus to humans in ...

Investigators have found evidence that civet cats with the SARS virus were in a restaurant where a suspected patient worked, adding to mounting indications that animals are the source of the disease, ...

Have you ever seen an African Civet? It has black and white splotches all over its body (reminds me of a hyena's markings) and black around its eyes much like a raccoon. They're very agile and fast ...

It's the world's most expensive coffee and is made from faeces, but connoisseur drinkers should feel most squeamish about the "horrific" abuse that mars its production process, animal welfare groups ...

What are CIVETS anyway? A Goldman Sachs economist coined the term BRIC ten years ago describing the four big emerging markets he predicted would drive global economic ...

BANGKOK, Thailand — Perhaps you’ve heard of “kopi luwak,” the world’s priciest coffee. And perhaps you know its main claim to notoriety: The drink is brewed from beans swallowed and excreted by civets ...

I wake up to scuffling sounds from the balcony. Burglars, I think immediately. My heart lurches as I reach for the phone — which is not there. In the moonlight, I can see it through my bedroom door on ...

SAGADA, the Philippines — Goad Sibayan went prospecting recently in the remote Philippine highlands here known as the Cordillera. He clambered up and then down a narrow, rocky footpath that snaked ...