Customs staff in Shanghai have seized more than 80,000 pieces of smuggled mink fur and detained 13 suspects. The fur was packed in 671 boxes of fiber, customs said on Thursday. The suspects confessed that they had illegally transport ...
The General Administration of Customs (GAC) said Thursday it has intensified crackdown on smuggling of rare animals and plants through 2015. Customs authorities nationwide discovered 160 smuggling cases from January to November, seizing ...
Tags: Customs, Wildlife Smugglers
The demand for foreign design goods is dramatically increasing in China. At the same time, the increasing demand has sapwnd overseas shopping representatives. China is the biggest luxury goods consuming country, sharing 29% of global ...
Tags: Daigou, design goods, luxury goods
A third or more of all the honey consumed in the U.S. is likely to have been smuggled in from China and may be tainted with illegal antibiotics and heavy metals. A Food Safety News investigation has documented that millions of pounds of ...
Tags: honey, Chinese honey, food safety
The National Security Agency (NSA) is harvesting data from contact lists of millions of personal email and instant messenger accounts from across the globe, according to documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden. The latest Prism ...
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A Mexican man is suing Ford Motor Company for negligence, alleging that the car maker gave out key codes allowing criminals to use his Ford Focus as a drug mule. Ricardo Magallanes spent six months in federal prison in El Paso, Texas, ...
Oil demand in Algeria has risen very strongly over the last few weeks, creating some shortages in parts of the country, a source at Naftal, the country's main fuel distributor, said Wednesday. But he added that Naftal had stepped up its ...
Tags: Oil Demand, Chemicals
A tour early this spring to the U.S.-Mexico border for the Arizona agricultural leadership group Project CENTRL at the San Luis, Ariz., Port of Entry was truly an eye-opening experience. This journalist was invited to participate and ...
Tags: Border Tour, Farm Worker
Last week, Australian Customs and Border Protection Service (ACBPS) officers in NSW and Victoria seized approximately 32 kilograms of ephedrine. The drugs were detected in 14 separate consignments from Hong Kong, China, India and Ireland ...
Tags: Smugglers, Drug Smugglers, Service
Saudi Arabian customs officials have foiled an attempt to smuggle 3.255 million kg (equivalent to 27,300 barrels) of refined oil products out of the eastern port of Dammam, capital of the kingdom's oil-rich Eastern Province, the official ...
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By Gary Sandiford,Olive Group's Dubai based assessments manager.Olive Group is a leading provider of security and technology solutions and has operated continuously in Iraq since 2003. Overview Olive Groups Iraq statistics are ...
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A complaint has been filed against a Cebu-based trader and her customs broker for allegedly attempting to illegally import P30 million worth of float glass from China. Customs Commissioner Ruffy Biazon himself led the formal filing of the ...
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