A Malaysian man was sentenced to 12 months in prison for smuggling 26 puppies and a cat in laundry bags to Singapore, causing unnecessary pain and suffering to the animals. The incident highlights the dangers of animal smuggling and the spread of infectious diseases like canine parvovirus.
A 36-year-old Indian-origin Malaysian was sentenced to 12 months in prison for smuggling 26 puppies and a cat in laundry bags from Malaysia to Singapore, media reports said.
Kalwant Singh, an Indian-origin Malaysian drug trafficker, was executed in Singapore on Thursday, after a top court rejected his last-minute bid to escape the gallows. Singh, 31, was arrested in 2013 for possessing 60.15 gm of diamorphine, including trafficking 120.9 gm of the substance. He was conv