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Singapore seizes record 35.7 kg rhino horn haul in $870,000 smuggling bust

Singapore seizes record 35.7 kg rhino horn haul in $870,000 smuggling bust

Singapore has seized over US$800,000 worth of illegal rhino horn and animal parts hidden in air cargo bound for Laos, authorities said Tuesday, in the largest haul of its kind discovered in the city-state.
Singapore jails South African for smuggling rhino horns

Singapore jails South African for smuggling rhino horns

Man arrested for trading rhino horns, ivory through shell companies

Man arrested for trading rhino horns, ivory through shell companies

Hanoi sends rhino horn trader to jail for 14 years

Hanoi sends rhino horn trader to jail for 14 years

A Hanoi court has sentenced Do Minh Toan to 14 years' imprisonment for trading and trafficking rhino horns, a tough verdict welcomed by experts.
December 7, 2021 | 04:19 am PT
Irish gang on trial in France for alleged rhino horn smuggling linked to Vietnam

Irish gang on trial in France for alleged rhino horn smuggling linked to Vietnam

Nine alleged members of an international network of rhino horn and ivory traffickers went on trial in France on Monday.
September 6, 2021 | 06:59 pm PT
Man gets five years in Hanoi for transporting rhino horns from Africa

Man gets five years in Hanoi for transporting rhino horns from Africa

The Hanoi People’s Court sentenced a man to five years in prison on Monday for trafficking rhino horns from Angola to Vietnam.
June 2, 2020 | 03:00 am PT
125 kilograms of rhino horns seized at Hanoi airport

125 kilograms of rhino horns seized at Hanoi airport

Hanoi customs said Sunday they’d seized 55 rhino horns weighing 125 kilograms in plaster blocks sent from the United Arab Emirates.
July 29, 2019 | 12:26 am PT
Two arrested with 167 rhino horns in huge South Africa haul

Two arrested with 167 rhino horns in huge South Africa haul

South African police said on Sunday they had found 167 rhino horns believed to be destined for Southeast Asia and nabbed two suspects.
April 14, 2019 | 05:16 pm PT
Seven Chinese nationals in Zimbabwe court over rhino horn stash

Seven Chinese nationals in Zimbabwe court over rhino horn stash

Seven Chinese nationals appeared in a Zimbabwe court Thursday after they were arrested last month with rhino horn pieces worth nearly a million dollars.
January 3, 2019 | 05:54 pm PT
China permits limited trade of rhino, tiger goods

China permits limited trade of rhino, tiger goods

China on Monday announced it was authorizing the trade of rhinoceros and tiger parts for scientific, medical and cultural purposes.
October 29, 2018 | 05:20 pm PT
Chinese man jailed by Dutch court for smuggling rhino horn

Chinese man jailed by Dutch court for smuggling rhino horn

Demand comes mostly from China and Vietnam, where the horn is coveted as a traditional medicine, an aphrodisiac or as a status symbol.
April 6, 2018 | 06:07 pm PT
Quackery and superstition: species pay the cost

Quackery and superstition: species pay the cost

A surge in demand in Vietnam is ascribed to a senior politician claiming in the mid-2000s that rhino horn cured his cancer.
March 24, 2018 | 06:30 pm PT
World's last male northern white rhino dies in Kenya

World's last male northern white rhino dies in Kenya

Conservationists put Sudan on dating app Tinder last year after all attempts to get him to mate naturally failed. 
March 20, 2018 | 12:03 am PT
Vietnamese man jailed in Singapore for smuggling rhino horn

Vietnamese man jailed in Singapore for smuggling rhino horn

The rhino horn pieces were cut from three horns from at least two black rhinos.
February 26, 2018 | 03:11 am PT
Leading ivory trade investigator found dead in Kenya

Leading ivory trade investigator found dead in Kenya

A prominent American investigator was found dead in his Nairobi home, just before he was expected to publish a new expose on Asia's influence.
February 5, 2018 | 05:22 pm PT
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