The Indonesian Directorate General of Customs and Excise recently hosted the fourth Joint Customs Middle-Management Programme (4th JCMMP), attracting representatives from eight ASEAN Member States and Australia.
Tan Son Nhat Airport customs officers in Ho Chi Minh City have found 2.3kg of marijuana products hidden in a goods consignment sent from California, the US, to Vietnam.
Customs officers at Ho Chi Minh City-based Tan Son Nhat International Airport and competent forces on November 23 arrested a man for illegally carrying firearms.
Customs officers of Noi Bai International Airport on September 28 seized nearly one tonne of elephant tusks, ivory products and pangolin scales transported from Nigeria.
Customs officers at Tan Son Nhat international airport in Ho Chi Minh City on June 29 discovered 4kg of marijuana carefully hidden in 20 vacuum-compressed nylon bags in a package of food and personal belongings sent from the US.
Customs officers at the Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City on March 20 detained a Korean man after he was found illegally transporting a gold bullion to the Incheon airport in the Republic of Korea.
Customs officers at Noi Bai International Airport on January 2 reported that they have uncovered a case of transporting African ivory tusks and African ivory tusk products from Hanoi to Thailand.
Officers from the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission and Royal Malaysian Customs Department are now permitted to use firearms on duty, reported the national news agency Bernama.
The Government has issued an instruction on avoiding overlapping inspections carried out by inter-sectoral and competent forces such as police, customs officers and inspectors.
Customs officers at Noi Bai International Airport and anti-smuggling forces on April 22 examined two packages and seized 105 pieces of elephant ivory, weighing nearly 100 kilogrammes.
Tay Ninh’s Forest Management Department said on October 6 it was completing procedures to hand two Mustela putorius weasels and two Manouria emys turtles to the Wild Animal Rescue Centre.