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Tag: rosewood

Posted inChina, Hong Kong

Couple’s raunchy wedding video sets tongues wagging

by Ben Kwok March 26, 2019February 18, 2020

Everyone wants to have a wedding to remember – a ceremony with laughs and cheers that every attendant will fondly recall for the rest of their lives. We are not talking about the Crazy Rich Asians-style wedding in Hong Kong last Friday put on by self-exiled former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra for his daughter in […]

Loggers get ready to take logs away on the China-Vietnam border village of Dongzhong in this file photo from 2003. The EU is working on a deal to buy verifiable timber from Vietnam but the industry is still riddled with corruption. Photo: AFP / Peter Parks
Posted inAT Finance, Cambodia, China, European Union, India, Laos, Malaysia, Shanghai, South Asia, Thailand, Vietnam, World

Tracing the safeguards against illegal logging in Vietnam

by Chris Humphrey December 8, 2018February 18, 2020
Rosewood is popular in China for ‘hongmu’ – antique furniture. Photo: Shutterstock/HelloRF Zcool
Posted inAT Finance, China, Middle East, South Asia, World

Why Zambia has not benefitted from rosewood trade with China

by Paolo Omar Cerutti and Davison Gumbo July 1, 2018February 18, 2020
Timber smugglers drive illegally cut logs from Cambodia's Virachey National Park to the Vietnam border in February 2017. Photo: Environmental Investigation Agency
Posted inAT Finance, Cambodia, China, European Union, Hong Kong, Laos, Middle East, Northeast Asia, South Asia, Vietnam, World

Cambodia, Laos losing the last of their trees

by Dan Southerland February 27, 2018February 18, 2020
Dalbergia Melanoxylon. Photo via Wikimedia
Posted inAT Finance, China, South Asia, World

Why Chinese attempts to reignite rosewood market will fail

by Zi Yang July 12, 2017February 18, 2020

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