Luxury Wood Seized in Ratanakiri Road Block
About 30 metres of luxury timber were seized in Ratanakirri province on Sunday after national and provincial military police set up a road block near the border with Vietnam, according to police officials. ... The high-end lumber was being smuggled over a dirt road in Lumphat district's Seda commune, about 25 km from National Road 78 near the Vietnamese border, according to Chay Thy, provincial monitor for rights group Adhoc. The timber seizure was the third in Ratanakirri this so far this year. ...
