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Hong Kong customs has arrested two domestic helpers suspected to have been using their employers’ homes to store illicit cigarettes and seized HK$900,000 (US$115, 400) worth of goods.
A recent article in Battery Energy outlines a method for converting cigarette filter waste (CFW) into carbon nanomaterials (CNMs) through a single-step, low-impact pyrolysis process. The goal is to ...
A D-N-A SAMPLE TAKEN FROM A PACKET OF CIGARETTES HAS LINKED AN ARMY PRIVATE STATIONED AT FORT ORD TO A NEARLY 50-YEAR-OLD MURDER. ACCORDING TO SANTA CLARA COUNTY DEPUTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY ...
There are iconic movie scenes that drive home the stereotype. Morgan Freeman‘s Red dealing cigarettes in “The Shawshank Redemption” may be the ultimate example of the trope — packs of ...
Not so in our country. When I used to smoke, I ended up carrying the waste in a cigarette packet as I had developed a habit against littering. Eventually I realised many face this issue and ...
Customs officers on Sunday conducted an anti-illicit cigarette operation in Sheung Shui, successfully dismantling two suspected storage and distribution centres primarily operated by foreign ...
They had several critical clues: a fingerprint on Ralston’s pack of Eve cigarettes and possible DNA on her fingernails and blouse. In August, the DA’s office said it matched the fingerprint to ...
Revenue officers have seized cigarettes worth €3.3 million at Dublin Port. The 3.7 million cigarettes branded 'Benson and Hedges' were discovered in a consignment of PVC windows and doors ...
ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines — Smuggled cigarettes worth P36.7 million were seized from a motorlaunch docked at a private wharf in this city on Friday morning. The contraband was loaded on M/L J ...