Checkpoint China: The shadowy world of timber smuggling

Mongabay
Oct 31, 2017, 6:05 pm182 pts
NORTHERN SHAN STATE, Myanmar – Looking back, it just seemed natural for Aung Tin Oo* to become a timber smuggler. Especially given that he hails from a central trading point in Myanmar near Mandalay. Timber smuggling has long been a hot business there, and Oo’s friends and uncles were doing it at the time.…

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