A Cambodian official accused of illegally importing wild, long-tailed macaque monkeys into the United States that were destined for Miami was acquitted Friday of conspiracy and smuggling charges after ...

MIAMIMIAMI — Federal prosecutors have charged eight people with smuggling endangered monkeys, including a Cambodian wildlife official who was arrested in the U.S. while traveling to a conference on ...

The smuggling of wild monkeys from Cambodia into the US was little known to the general public until November 2022, when the US Department of Justice unsealed an indictment. The case alleges that the ...

Yesterday brought the news that U.S. federal prosecutors have charged eight people, including two Cambodian government officials, with running an international monkey-smuggling operation that saw ...

Macaque monkeys sit in a row in the town of Lopburi, 155 km (96 miles) north of Bangkok, August 19, 2009. Thailand started a birth control programme to sterilise male monkeys with the aim of ...

Following the recent indictments of several people allegedly involved in a monkey-smuggling operation, Cambodia has halted exports of non-human primates that are widely used in pharmaceutical research ...

Macaque monkeys from Java that were photographed at Monkey Jungle in 2008. They are similar to the Macaque monkeys from Cambodia in the 2024 case in which a Cambodian official was acquitted of ...