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Big Trouble for Tigers in Laos

Big Trouble for Tigers in Laos

Dreams of “a thousand tigers” for wine and dinner plates coming to fruition?

Apr 13, 2022
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By: Gregory McCann

In 2015, the US Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) surreptitiously recorded the Kings Romans Group in a special economic zone in Laos’s Bokeo Province which is 80 percent owned by Chinese businessmen, notably Zao Wei, who US officials allege is one of the world’s most notorious drug traffickers. But it wasn’t drugs that the inves…

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