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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trade could not continue on such a scale without the collusion of African officials. "So many of Africa's functionaries are corrupt," says K.T. Wang, one of Hong Kong's major ivory traders. "If they get money, they say it's legal ivory. If they don't get money, they say it's poached." Over the years, senior African officials, their spouses and close friends, and wildlife authorities have been implicated in ivory scandals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Elephants: Trail of Shame | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

...Wang, 66, a businessman with silver hair and impeccable manners, is the dean of Hong Kong's ivory trade. He has never been to Africa, and the only elephant he has seen was in the Paris zoo. Yet he is a major conduit for ivory entering both Hong Kong and Japan. In February he helped Tokyo's largest trader, Koichiro Kitagawa, purchase nearly five tons of Sudanese ivory for $1 million from another Hong Kong dealer. In 1987 he engineered the purchase of 26 tons of Congo ivory by the Osaka trader Kageo Takaichi. The $3.5 million shipment contained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Elephants: Trail of Shame | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

...Wang built up huge inventories of ivory in Singapore in anticipation of the CITES registration. On Oct. 31, 1986 -- the last day that importation of ivory without CITES papers was allowed -- more than ten tons of Wang's ivory arrived on a Boeing 707 from Burundi. When Chris Huxley, then a CITES official, examined some of the more than 50 tons of tusks Wang owned in Singapore, he found evidence that suggested some of the elephants had not died of natural causes: "A few had light-caliber bullet damage. Some still had considerable bone attached and had obviously been removed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Elephants: Trail of Shame | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

...ivory unit has received two-thirds of its budget -- some $237,468 -- in contributions from ivory traders. Japan's trade association has contributed $139,701 to CITES' ivory unit, making it the largest single contributor. After CITES registered the Singapore ivory, much of which belonged to Hong Kong's Wang, he contributed $10,000 to the organization. "When I saw my salary was coming from K.T. Wang, that just did it," said Yovino, then head of that unit. Yovino resigned two weeks later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Elephants: Trail of Shame | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

...Aarvik admitted the choice could be interpreted that way. "If I were a Chinese student, I would be fully in support of the decision," he told reporters. The Chinese embassy in Oslo read it the same way. It denounced the award as an intervention in China's internal affairs. Wang Guisheng, the embassy press attache, accused the Dalai Lama of "subverting the unity of the nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prizes: A Bow to Tibet | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

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