{"id":85677,"date":"2020-07-30T14:27:14","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T06:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=85677"},"modified":"2020-07-30T15:58:46","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T07:58:46","slug":"for-heavens-sake-oriental-magpie-robins-too-smugglers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=85677","title":{"rendered":"For heaven&#8217;s sake, oriental magpie-robins too smugglers?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"736\" src=\"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/oriental-magpie-robin-326361_1920-1024x736.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-85683\" srcset=\"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/oriental-magpie-robin-326361_1920-1024x736.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/oriental-magpie-robin-326361_1920-300x216.jpg 300w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/oriental-magpie-robin-326361_1920-768x552.jpg 768w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/oriental-magpie-robin-326361_1920-560x404.jpg 560w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/oriental-magpie-robin-326361_1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Image by <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/users\/sarangib-37542\/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;utm_content=326361\">Bishnu Sarangi<\/a>  with courtesy from <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;utm_content=326361\">Pixabay<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>MELAKA, July 30&nbsp;(NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; Four men, including two Indonesian nationals, were arrested for attempting to smuggle about 1,500 Oriental magpie-robins, worth RM300,000,&nbsp; out of the country about 1.9 nautical miles southwest of Pulau Besar early today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Melaka and&nbsp;Negeri Sembilan Maritime director Captain Haris Fadzillah Abdullah said the arrest of the four suspects, aged between 33 and 55, was made after a maritime patrol boat saw two suspicious looking boats in the area and approached them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cChecks conducted on the two boats, which do not have registration numbers, found&nbsp; baskets containing 1,500 birds ,\u201d he said in a statement today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the birds were believed to be smuggled to a neighbouring because of its high demand there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the Indonesian nationals, he said, both of them did not possess valid identification and travel documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Haris Fadzillah said enforcement operations in the waters off Melaka and Negeri Sembilan would continue to be stepped up to combat cross-border criminal activities and urged those with information on such activities to contact the Maritime Operations Center, which operates round the clock,&nbsp;at 06-3876730 or &nbsp;999 .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MELAKA, July 30&nbsp;(NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; Four men, including two Indonesian nationals, were arrested for attempting to smuggle about 1,500 Oriental magpie-robins, worth RM300,000,&nbsp; out of the country about 1.9 nautical miles southwest of Pulau Besar early today. Melaka and&nbsp;Negeri Sembilan Maritime director Captain Haris Fadzillah Abdullah said the arrest of the four suspects, aged between 33 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":85683,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288,300,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85677"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/85683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}