Smuggling

Thailand to tighten anti-drug measures at airports after Australia-linked smuggling cases

Thailand’s Transport Ministry also said that current screening of airline crew is carried out under the same standards as passenger screening.

Thai PM Anutin orders urgent drug crackdown meeting after Australia-linked smuggling cases

Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul was reportedly deeply dissatisfied after the two incidents.

Taiwan detains super micro workers in China smuggling probe

Super Micro Computer said the company is not the target of the investigation and it has given investigators access to employees’ devices and systems

US imposes sanctions on Mexicans, entities tied to Mexican fuel smuggling network

FILE PHOTO: A Mexican Navy boat patrols the perimeter of the Francisco I. Madero refinery of state oil company Pemex in Ciudad Madero, Mexico, May 28, 2025. REUTERS/Daniel Becerril/File Photo

Super Micro raided as Taiwan expands Nvidia chip smuggling probe

Taiwan is probing the alleged smuggling of Nvidia chips into China using Super Micro’s servers.

China detains two Japanese nationals suspected of smuggling banned goods

Two arrested in Spain over exotic animal trafficking network

Police also found 61 dogs and 28 cats which they believe were being bred for illegal sale.

Two Guatemalans plead guilty in US migrant smuggling case after crash kills 55

A police officer raises his arm to block photographers to to avoid taking pictures at the site of a trailer accident that left at least 49 people dead, most of them migrants from Central America, in Tuxtla Gutierrez, in Chiapas state, Mexico December 9, 2021. REUTERS/Jacob Garcia

Smuggled dinosaur fossils return to Mongolia after two decades

The collection includes a Tarbosaurus bataar skeleton and 28 groups of fossilised dinosaur remains originally found in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert.

Indonesia vessels headed towards Singapore with smuggled rare earth metals intercepted

Chief of Staff of the Indonesian Military (TNI) inspectING evidence of rare earth element (REE) and radioactive mineral smuggling foiled by the Navy in Batam, Riau Islands.

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