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New Straits Times
20 May 2006

Rescued pet goes home

A monkey smuggled into Singapore and kept in a warehouse chained by its neck to a pole for a year was repatriated to her native India yesterday. The fully grown female rhesus macaque was rescued by the Animal Concerns Research and Education Society, or Acres, in August 2004 from a warehouse where it was kept as a pet.

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