Traders of contraband milk formula are shifting their operations to a historic street in the border town of Sha Tau Kok, which lets them skirt tighter checks on parallel exports that began on...
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7 Jan 2013
Customs officers have seized a stash of weapons and suspected fake items worth HK$2.7 million bound for India from a vessel entering Hong Kong from the mainland.
6 Jan 2013
Customs officials have moved to quell privacy fears over controversial new full-body scanners headed for the Kai Tak cruise terminal and Chep Lap Kok airport, saying they are not intrusive and...
21 Oct 2012
One of the world's biggest ever seizures of illicit ivory - a haul of tusks which cost the lives of 600 African elephants - has been made in Hong Kong. The raid was the outcome of a two-month-long...
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26 Sep 2005
Micky, a drug detector dog for customs, charms a mother and her daughter at the Discovery Park Shopping Centre in Tsuen Wan yesterday during the Outstanding Dogs of Hong Kong Awards.
EIGHTEEN men and a woman were arrested and $3 million worth of pirate CDs and VCDs have been seized in an anti-piracy operation by Customs officials.
On the afternoon of July 24, I went through an experience that left me both angry and concerned.
Living in the New Territories I went into Kowloon to take care of some errands.
THE increasing sophistication of cross-border smuggling rackets has sparked hefty new incentives to entice people close to any illicit trade into tipping-off the Customs Department.
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