South China Morning Post published this video item, entitled “Pet lion confiscated by Cambodian police after Chinese owner shared TikTok video” – below is their description.
A lion that was illegally smuggled into Cambodia by a Chinese national has been confiscated by local authorities after the owner posted footage of the animal on the video-sharing app TikTok in late April 2021. Animal rescue non-governmental organisation Wildlife Alliance supported the police raid. The NGO wrote later on Facebook that conditions in a private residence are “inappropriate for a wild animal.” The lion was also found to be defanged and declawed, which the Wildlife Alliance said “drastically reduces a lion’s quality of life.” It is illegal to import or possess endangered wild animals as pets in Cambodia.
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In This Story: Cambodia
Cambodia, officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochina peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is 181,035 square kilometres (69,898 square miles) in area, bordered by Thailand to the northwest, Laos to the northeast, Vietnam to the east and the Gulf of Thailand to the southwest.
The sovereign state of Cambodia has a population of over 15 million. Buddhism is enshrined in the constitution as the official state religion, and is practised by more than 97% of the population. Cambodia’s minority groups include Vietnamese, Chinese, Chams and 30 hill tribes.
The capital and largest city is Phnom Penh. The kingdom is an elective constitutional monarchy with a monarch chosen by the Royal Council of the Throne as head of state. The head of government is the Prime Minister.
Cambodia gained independence from France in 1953. The United Nations designates Cambodia as a least developed country.
In This Story: TikTok
TikTok, known in China as Douyin, is a Chinese video-sharing social networking service owned by ByteDance, a Beijing-based Internet technology company founded in 2012 by Zhang Yiming. It is used to create short music, lip-sync, dance, comedy and talent videos of 3 to 15 seconds, and short looping videos of 3 to 60 seconds.
ByteDance first launched Douyin for the Chinese market in September 2016. Later, TikTok was launched in 2017 for iOS and Android in most markets outside of mainland China; however, it only became available worldwide, including the United States, after merging with another Chinese social media service Musical.ly on 2 August 2018.
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