Smuggling

Venezuela's Maduro scraps plan to restrict food sales

9 Jun 2013

Officials in western Zulia state had said the plan to limit sales of items such as cooking oil, flour, chicken and toilet paper — all of which are subject to price controls — could begin as early...

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HK$60m of contraband electronics seized from ship on Pearl River Delta

18 May 2013

Acting on intelligence, officers intercepted the ship, known as a river trade vessel, shortly after it set off from Black Point in Tuen Mun for Humen in Guangdong on Thursday. They escorted the...

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Taiwan men face US weapons smuggling charges

7 May 2013

A Taiwanese man with ties to North Korea used shell companies set up by his son to smuggle machinery that can be used to make weapons of mass destruction out of the United States, prosecutors said...

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Hong Kong seizes 113 smuggled ivory tusks worth HK$3m

1 May 2013

Hong Kong customs officers have seized 113 ivory tusks worth about HK$3 million on the Chinese ivory market, officials said on Wednesday.

1:18PM

Customs seize HK$24 million worth of counterfeit cigarettes and tobacco

1 May 2013

The 9.3 million cigarettes and 90kg of tobacco were found in a container that arrived in Hong Kong from Port Kelang in Malaysia via Singapore.

5:52AM

Smugglers cash in big on 'British' tobacco trafficked through Hong Kong

8 Apr 2013

Criminal syndicates are reaping huge profits by smuggling mainland tobacco through Hong Kong into Britain, where it is sold at a 5,000 per cent mark-up, a government source says.

10:33AM

Opinion

Alex Lo

Chen Guangcheng misled by his new right-wing 'friends'

1:26AM

Tom Holland

The yuan hasn't overtaken the HK$ quite yet, Mr Chan

4:40AM

Hong Kong foots the bill as Beijing tops up its tax take

An elite Customs team has been set up to tackle smuggling syndicates who are making millions of dollars a day shipping container loads of illegal goods between Hong Kong and the mainland.

6:55AM

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China and Vietnam co-operating despite border disputes

A week after China fired flares at Vietnamese fishing boats in yet another stand-off in the South China Sea, the two countries showed they could quietly co-operate

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Ivory haul poses 16-tonne headache for Hong Kong's conservation officers

What do you do with 16 tonnes of elephant tusks? Conservation officers wrestling with that problem have shelved - for the time being - the idea of incinerating the growing stock of illegal ivory...

8:32AM

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SMUGGLING

Greater China second to India in seizure of tiger parts

A report on the illegal wildlife trade of tigers across Asia shows that between 2000 and 2012, greater China had the most seizures of tiger parts after India. There were a total of 654 seizures...

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CANADA

Chinese smuggle millions of dollars via Vancouver airport

In June last year, a mainland traveller was caught carrying undeclared cash worth C$177,495 (HK$1.34 million), according to a freedom of information report requested by the Vancouver Sun.

1:05AM

Three arrested at border 'attempting to smuggle HK$24,940 of baby formula'

Customs and Excise Department detained a 23-year-old driver at the Lok Ma Chau border after 60 cans of formula were found hidden behind the back seat of his seven-seater van.

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