Two arrested as Thai cops foil another shipment of monkeys to Laos

Upon opening the boot of the sedan, police found 27 sedated monkeys tied up and crammed into net bags. One of them had been suffocated to death. - The Nation

BANGKOK (The Nation/Asia News Network): Two Thai nationals were arrested in Udon Thani’s Nong Han district trying to smuggle 27 long-tailed crab-eating macaques across the border to Laos.

It is believed the monkeys would have ended up in restaurants serving exotic meat.