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Al Jazeera wins current affairs award for ‘Lizard King’ documentary
The Malay Mail Online
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 10 — Al Jazeera’s 101 East won the best current affairs programme award at the Asia Television Awards last Sunday, edging out competitors with its documentary on notorious wildlife smuggler Anson Wong.
The international news channel said today that its Kuala Lumpur-based team had defeated other international networks like CNN, BBC, CNBC and CCTV.
http://my.news.yahoo.com/al-jazeera-wins-current-affairs-award-lizard-king-100100880.html
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Published on Nov 21, 2013
101 East exposes an infamous wildlife trafficker at the helm of an illegal multi-million dollar business.
101 East :
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FAMOUS/INFAMOUS WORDS, DEPENDING ON YOUR POINT OF VIEW
Natural Resources and Environment Minister Datuk Seri G. Palanivel told Chao that he was unaware of Wong’s infamy.
“I do not know who this person is. I have never come across him. Only today was I told of this chap,” he said at the time of the interview.
Star
Saturday November 23, 2013 MYT 7:23:32 AM
Authorities in the dark over convicted trafficker’s return
Confrontation: A still from the film Return of the Lizard King showing Wong being asked about his business activities.
PETALING JAYA: The Malaysian authorities are apparently in the hot seat as a new investigative film has revealed that convicted wildlife trafficker Anson Wong is back in business.
Posing as interested buyers, Al Jazeera’s 101 East presenter Steve Chao and his team conducted a year-long investigation which took them to Madagascar, Indonesia and Malaysia as they sought to infiltrate Wong’s network.
Natural Resources and Environment Minister Datuk Seri G. Palanivel told Chao that he was unaware of Wong’s infamy.
Authorities in the dark over convicted trafficker’s return
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Star
Saturday November 23, 2013 MYT 6:50:51 AM
Wildlife organisation demands answers to lingering Lizard King questions
PETALING JAYA: The Government must give solid answers to the alarming enforcement issues raised in an investigative film featuring wildlife crime kingpin Anson Wong, said Traffic Southeast Asia.
Its legal and policy officer Shenaaz Khan said Al Jazeera’s 101 East film Return of the Lizard King had raised “so many doubts and questions about Malaysia’s commitment to fight global wildlife trafficking business”.
It is time we had some solid answers from the Government,” she said in an immediate response to the film, which premiered yesterday on the Al Jazeera network.
She urged the authorities to provide a credible explanation as to how Wong was seemingly back in the multi-million dollar illegal wildlife trade despite Government promises to the contrary.
Wildlife organisation demands answers to lingering Lizard King questions
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Malaysia’s own Lizard King
Wong has been notoriously-linked to illegal global wildlife trade for over two decades.
His infamy stemmed from 1998 when United States agents arrested him after being lured to Mexico in an elaborate five-year investigation, and was the subject of the book The Lizard King by author Bryan Christy.
Wong was later convicted for smuggling endangered species and sentenced to 71 months in prison in the United States.
In 2010, Wong was caught trying to transit to Jakarta with 95 boa constrictors.
Initially sentenced to five years in jail, his term was cut to 17 months on appeal and he was freed in February last year.
Al Jazeera TV claims that Wong is “still operating his multi-million dollar illegal business, with the help of government officials.” The illegal trade in wildlife is thought to be worth at least $19 billion a year now.
*http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/247023
*‘The Lizard King‘ is back in business, claims Al Jazeera
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Published on Nov 18, 2013
Is the world’s most notorious wildlife smuggler still at work? 101 East goes undercover to expose Anson Wong’s Malaysian-based operation — and the officials who allow it.
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Malaysia Chronicle
Wednesday, 20 November 2013 15:18
EXPOSED! Wildlife trafficker Anson Wong & Malaysia’s ring of corruption
Written by Malaysia Chronicle
KUALA LUMPUR – This Friday, an investigative documentary on notorious wildlife trafficker Anson Wong will be shown at 6.30am on the Aljazeera channel (Astro 513).
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Sources tell Malaysia Chronicle that the documentary pulls no punches and while the focus is Wong, the ‘help’ that he received from corrupt Malaysian officials ensured that he always stayed a step ahead of the law.
Even after he was jailed, he was able to secure an early release in 2012 serving only 17 months of a 5-year jail sentence.
Wong is not only free but almost back to where he was before – at the Number One spot in illegal wildlife trafficking.
Malaysiakini
Convicted Malaysian wildlife smuggler Anson Wong a.k.a. ‘The Lizard King’ may still be moving endangered species around the world in what has become the third most lucrative black market after drugs and arms, Al Jazeera TV said in a press statement today.
‘The Lizard King’ is back in business, claims Al Jazeera (updated)
Anson Wong, aka ‘The Lizard King’ at the Sepang Sessions Court after he was sentenced to six months’ jail for smuggling 95 snakes in 2010.
PETALING JAYA: Infamous wildlife smuggler Anson Wong, also known as ‘The Lizard King’ is rumoured to be back in the animal trafficking business.
Al Jazeera’s 101 East presenter Steve Chao, who produced an investigative film about Anson Wong’s smuggling business, said sources informed him that Wong is still in business.
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