Vietnamese workers get prison time for poaching cypress burls

Two Vietnamese migrant workers have been sentenced to one year and four months in prison and fined NT$3 million (US$104,424) each for cutting of a truckload of knots from protected cypress trees in Taiwan, according to a court verdict issued Sunday.

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