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The US Treasury Department has slapped sanctions on a gambling empire hacked from the Laotian jungle which it said was involved in drug, human and wildlife trafficking and child prostitution.
The two countries say they will strengthen efforts to block drugs coming out of the Golden Triangle and prevent drug precursors being trafficked into the region.
Poppy cultivation has rapidly expanded in the Burmese and Laos parts of the Golden Triangle, to feed new demands for heroin, chiefly in China, according to a report released Monday.
Burma has promised to speed up peace efforts with ethnic minority groups in order to better tackle drug trafficking across its borders.
“Conducting these urine tests on people violates their dignity,” says Tachileik governor.
Olive Yang, the crossdressing royal-turned-warlord, died on Thursday. She was 90.
At a remote farm about two hours away from Loikaw, capital of Karenni State, farmers scrape out raw opium from the poppies they’ve grown.
Wa leaders say that as part of its push to get rid of poppy, they relocated some 100,000 citizens – a sixth of the population.
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Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-o-cha says a new action film about the massacre of Chinese sailors on the Mekong River in 2011 will be banned if it is found to “damage” the country.
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Burma, China, Thailand and Laos open an operations centre in northern Thailand’s Chiang Rai Province for criminal suppression and prevention on the Mekong River.
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News of the new routes is sure to well received by intrepid travellers, who no longer have to queue up at a Burmese embassy for consecutive days to get a stamp to enter the country.
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The World Wildlife Fund says it welcomes the Burmese government’s plan to shut down one of the world’s most notorious markets for endangered species.
The Burma-Laos border is mostly unguarded. The terrain is rugged and hostile, where the drug trade flourishes in lawless enclaves on both sides of the river.
Police in northern Burma’s Kachin State are questioning members of anti-drug vigilante group Pat Jasan concerning a violent brawl between the group and local opium farmers in Waingmaw Township last week.
A Kachin drug vigilante group has claimed the Burmese army blocked their latest attempt to destroy poppy fields in Burma’s far north.
A member of a controversial anti-drug vigilante group was killed in Kachin State on Friday.
Opium cultivation remains a lucrative source of income for many farmers, but the illegal industry is facing renewed scrutiny in the Asia-Pacific region.
Four people were killed in a flash flood in eastern Shan State, where severe currents swept away local villagers and houses in the village of Kyaing Lat in Tachileik District.
The four, whose bodies were recovered on Wednesday, were as yet unnamed. Official sources said they were an older man, a mother and two children.
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While the opening of the first Myanmar-Laos Friendship Bridge brings economic benefits, it has also raised concerns over drug trafficking.
A truckload of methamphetamine tablets, commonly known by the Thai word ya-ba, was seized near the Shan State border town of Tachilek on Friday.
Burma’s border crossings to Thailand remain open; meanwhile aid workers do not envisage any disruption to the delivery of supplies to refugees along the Thai-Burmese border.
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Opium production in Burma increased 26 percent in 2013 to an estimated 870 tonnes, the highest since assessments by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) began cooperating with the Burmese government in 2002.
Burmese authorities claim to have discovered over US$1.3 million worth of methamphetamine tablets buried by the late drug kingpin Naw Kham near the Thai-Burma border.
The notorious drug trafficker Naw Kham will be executed by lethal injection in southern China on Friday, according to reports in the Chinese press
Burmese national Sai Naw Kham, who was sentenced to death by a Chinese court this week, is set to file an appeal against the ruling
Shan Drug Watch published its 2012 annual report yesterday urging a political solution with armed ethnic groups in Burma
The Democratic Karen Benevolent Army is denying that their leader is involved in the drug trade after Thai authorities offered a one million baht reward for his capture
Burma’s reinvigorated ‘war on opium’ serves to distract from the fact that the methamphetamine trade is both a far greater problem, and one that Burmese troops and members of the government play a key role in
Three Burmese soldiers die in clashes with ethnic militias shortly after joint river patrols to protect Chinese cargo ships begin
