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1. News - Asia - THAILAND

   Thai army raids Rohingya smugglers' secret camp near Malaysian border

   Posted Jan 11th 2013, 12:00am by Alan Morison

   ... News Asia Smuggler Rohingya refugee Malaysia Chutima Sidasathian and Alan Morison in Phuket Thai authorities have raided a secret transit camp for ethnic Rohingya on the border with Malaysia, after an undercover operation in which two of the Muslim migrants were "purchased" from people smugglers. The Army operation on Wednesday night resulted in the detention of 351 ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1125058/thai-army-raids-rohingya-smugglers-secret-camp-near-malaysian-border
2. News - Hong Kong

   City Digest, October 5, 2012

   Posted Oct 05th 2012, 12:00am by STAFF

   ... office staff after its return because the addressee could not be located. Smugglers escape in boat as police move in Police and customs officers seized HK$170,000 worth of computer ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1054027/city-digest-october-5-2012
3. News - Hong Kong - COURTS

   Jail term raised for smuggler who fooled top court judges

   Posted Mar 07th 2013, 12:00am by Austin Chiu

   ... News Hong Kong Drug smuggler top court judges Austin Chiu austin.chiu@scmp.com Inmate had fooled top court's judges into overturning conviction with forged papers A jailed drug smuggler, whose conviction for assaulting prison officers was overturned after he used forged documents in his appeal against it, has had his sentence increased from four years to six years and nine ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1183843/jail-term-raised-smuggler-who-fooled-top-court-judges
4. News - Asia - SINGAPORE

   Singapore drug trafficker avoids death sentence

   Posted Apr 12th 2013, 12:00am by AFP

   ... News Asia Crime in Singapore Drug smuggler Death sentence Agence France-Presse Heroin smuggler who pleaded to be hanged like his friend is first saved from gallows A heroin smuggler has become the first convicted drug trafficker in Singapore to avoid a death sentence following reforms in the application of capital punishment, officials said yesterday. Singaporean Abdul Haleem ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1212410/singapore-drug-trafficker-avoids-death-sentence
5. News - Hong Kong

   City Digest, December 12, 2012

   Posted Dec 12th 2012, 12:00am by STAFF

   ... Smuggler arrested after 8km sea chase Marine police arrested a 31-year-old mainland man and seized 51 boxes of live lobsters worth about HK$300,000 from a speedboat after an eight-kilometre chase ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1103198/city-digest-december-12-2012
6. News - Hong Kong - CRIME

   Eviction threat to cigarette smugglers on public housing estates

   Posted Nov 03rd 2012, 12:00am by Clifford Lo

   ... News Hong Kong Crime Eviction cigarette smugglers public housing estates Clifford Lo clifford.lo@scmp.com Public housing estate tenants who place phone orders for contraband cigarettes to be delivered to their homes may face eviction if arrested and convicted, a senior customs officer said. Wan Hing-chuen, divisional commander of the customs services' anti-illicit-cigarette ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1074761/eviction-threat-cigarette-smugglers-public-housing-estates
7. Comment - Insight & Opinion

   What the local media says

   Posted Jan 05th 2013, 12:00am by Nelson Cheng

   ... They will be raised by their father.   Thursday, Oriental Daily Smugglers hire people to dig border tunnel Four mainlanders, aged between 18 and 36, were arrested at an abandoned farm in Lin Ma Hang, Fanling, ...

   http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1120043/what-local-media-says
8. News - Hong Kong

   China camera fad a boon for smugglers

   Posted May 18th 2013, 12:00am by Thomas Chan

   ... said there was now huge demand for photography gadgets on the mainland and profit margins for the smugglers were about 15 to 20 per cent. On Thursday, marine police officers kept tabs on 10 men ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1240064/mainland-camera-fad-boon-smugglers
9. News - China

   Conservation official denies legal ivory trade to blame for poaching

   Posted May 21st 2013, 05:25pm by Reuters

   ... on the ivory trade, says safari expert Chinese ivory smuggler caught in Kenya fined less than US$1 a piece Ivory haul poses 16-tonne headache for Hong Kong's conservation officers Hand ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1242819/conservation-official-denies-legal-ivory-trade-blame-poaching
10. News - China

    China continues drug clampdown near Kachin rebel headquarters

    Posted Apr 01st 2013, 11:44am by Patrick Boehler

    ... regime in Myanmar.  On Friday, border guards arrested two smugglers with 5kg of opium near Yinjiang County, only days after catching another smuggler with 17kg .  In the last two months, Chinese ...

    http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1204587/china-continues-drug-clampdown-near-kachin-rebel-headquarters

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