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#animal cruelty

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Fashion

Dec 7, 20181 min read

Chanel to stop using exotic skin in its collection

Ahead of its pre-fall 2019 Métiers d’Art show in New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, Chanel has said it will “no longer use exotic skins in [its] future creations”. The exotic skins in question include crocodile, lizard, snake, stingray and fur, of which…

Living

Jan 3, 20172 min read

2 Vietnamese men jailed for smuggling songbirds

Two Vietnamese men were sentenced to six months’ jail yesterday for smuggling 12 songbirds into Singapore. The estimated retail price of each bird here is $1,800. Businessman To Quoc Viet, 38, and his half-brother, Thai Anh Quoc, 48, who is jobless, were also…