Singapore News - What started off as a prank for one man resulted in an $8,000 fine, after he bought and later sold a pangolin through a Telegram chat group. Lee Kian Han, 35, pleaded guilty on March 13 to one charge of selling a Sunda pangolin illegally to a National Parks Board (NParks). Read more at www.tnp.sg
Singapore News - A South African man who was caught with Singapore’s largest-ever seizure of rhinoceros horns –worth more than $1.2 million – was sentenced to two years’ jail on Jan 26. Gumede Sthembiso Joel, 33, had earlier pleaded guilty to two charges under the Endangered Species. Read more at www.tnp.sg
World News - The University of California, Berkeley, School of Law on Thursday joined the law schools at Yale and Harvard in withdrawing from US News & World Report's influential law school rankings. Berkeley Law dean Erwin Chemerinsky said in a message to students that the rankings. Read more at www.tnp.sg
Singapore News - A nature lover came face to face with an endangered dusky langur at a toilet in the Central Catchment Nature Reserve recently. Spencer Yau shared his encounter with the primate on Facebook group
World News - PHNOM PENH (AFP) - Cambodian fishermen on the Mekong River got a shock when they inadvertently hooked an endangered giant freshwater stingray 4m long and weighing 180kg, scientists said on Wednesday (May 11). The female leviathan, one of Southeast Asia's largest and rarest. Read more at www.tnp.sg