Police launched a major investigation into a well organised gang smuggling large quantities of protected phayung wood (rosewood) from Thailand to China with a raid on two warehouses and seizure of 15 tonnes of timber in Samut Prakan on Thursday morning.

About 15 tonnes of illegally harvested logs and planks were confiscated and seven men arrested, two of them Chinese nationals.

Full story: Bangkok Post

SUTTHIWIT CHAYUTWORAKAN
BANGKOK POST