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Vietnamese caught smuggling rhino horn at Suvarnabhumi
News, Online Reporters, Published on 08/09/2025
» A Vietnamese passenger travelling from Angola was arrested at Suvarnabhumi airport attempting to smuggle rhinoceros horn through Thailand from Africa to Laos.
Khon Kaen Zoo gets spooky for Halloween
News, Chakkrapan Natanri, Published on 30/10/2024
» The Khon Kaen Zoo is inviting visitors to join its Halloween event on Thursday with themed decorations all ready for photo shoots at its popular hippo zone.
Trafficking 'Godfather' gets jail term
News, Wassana Nanuam, Published on 23/09/2023
» NEW YORK: Malaysian wildlife smuggler, Teo Boon Ching, also known as the "Godfather" has been sentenced to 18 months in prison in the US for conspiring to traffic hundreds of kilogrammes of rhinoceros horns worth millions of dollars.
Alleged animal trafficker on way to the US
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 09/10/2022
» A Malaysian man arrested in Bangkok in June for alleged wildlife trafficking has been extradited to the United States.
Malaysian trafficker snared
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 01/07/2022
» A 58-year-old Malaysian man was arrested in Bangkok on Wednesday on suspicion of trafficking wildlife around the world. He will be extradited to the United States, police said yesterday.
The Soliloquy of Harold Callahan
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 11/07/2021
» My thanks to former colleague Alan Dawson for alerting me to a scene from the Clint Eastwood film Sudden Impact which may throw some light on the hot dog and ketchup debate which featured in last week's column.
Amlo poaches more of smuggler's assets
News, King-oua Laohong, Published on 17/03/2021
» The Anti-Money Laundering Office (Amlo) has confiscated further assets worth more than three million baht from the network of wildlife poaching kingpin Boonchai Bach.
Ban moot without diet shift
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 15/06/2020
» China's recent efforts to protect one of the world's most poached animals from the brink of extinction -- pangolins -- by removing it from the list of traditional Chinese medicines have been welcomed, but wildlife advocates say that trading will continue in illegal wildlife markers if eating behaviours remain unchanged.
Thailand on ancient migration corridor
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 20/09/2019
» A study on two spotted hyena teeth that were found in the southern province of Krabi two years ago has confirmed a theory that the southern region was dominated by savannah vegetation 200,000 years ago, according to a fossil expert from Chulalongkorn University.
Saving the great hornbill
News, Aree Thongboonrawd, Published on 12/01/2019
» One of the first things you notice about hornbills, apart from their sickle-shaped bills and quiff-like casques, is they have funny names -- rhinoceros, helmeted, wreathed, wrinkled and trumpeter, to name just a few -- but the threat of their extinction is no laughing matter.