The scaly anteaters were packed in plastic boxes when Lt-Colonel Phichai Kirawanich, an investigator at Provincial Police Region 9, and his team raided the house. Householders Achara Boonrat and Thanonjit Komuk were arrested for possession of protected wildlife.

Phichai said the pangolins, worth millions of baht, were smuggled from neighbouring countries and destined for China and Hong Kong, where people believe the meat increases libido.

Education :Case-by-case O-Net review

The National Educational Testing Service Institute will tomorrow consider on a case-by-case basis the admissions of the 1,500 students who repeated the O-Net.

The institute met yesterday but could not decide whether

the students could use their score from this year's Ordinary National Educational Test, director Utumporn Chamornmarn said.

It was caught in a dilemma after hundreds of students who completed high school last year took the O-Net for the second time this year to boost their chances of getting into their preferred university and wanted to use the score from the second sitting.

After the Higher Education Commission, which is responsible for the central university-admission system, disallowed the scores of second tests, 25 students petitioned the Khon Kaen Administrative Court, asking that their O-Net scores from the second test be used.

The court issued an injunction against the admissions criteria pending a review of the case, but the Supreme Administrative Court suspended the injunction on appeal from the Higher Education Commission.