Klook, one of the leading online travel companies, has launched an animal welfare policy that will see it end the sale of circus-style performances involving elephants, dolphins and tigers, World Animal Protection reported recently.

A python that bit a Chinese tourist on the nose during a "snake kiss" souvenir photo at the Phuket Biotechnology office in Muang district, was seized yesterday after officials found that its owner did not have a permit to keep it.