Shan State police seize 67kg of heroin hidden under SUV
The police deputy-commander said that drugs are frequently seized at Takaw Bridge, but this was the biggest seizure at that checkpoint so far this year.
The police deputy-commander said that drugs are frequently seized at Takaw Bridge, but this was the biggest seizure at that checkpoint so far this year.
Police in China seized approximately 13 kilograms of heroin being trafficked from Burma, local authorities told China’s state-run Xinhua News. Police say they detained one suspect on Sunday in Yunnan[…]
Increasing numbers of young males in Kachin state are developing heroin addictions as authorities turn a blind eye to dealers
Bases belonging to pro-junta Pa-O militia rumoured to be stocking material for heroin production raided as US releases damning drugs report
Regional narcotics experts assert that record heroin seizure made in Thailand was produced by Burma’s largest ethnic army
Heroin transported from Shan state is dominating the market for drug users in southwestern China’s Yunnan province, which is seeing a rise in registered users
Jan 27, 2009 (DVB), A crab exporter from Irrawaddy division’s Bogalay township was arrested yesterday for smuggling heroin aboard a container ship, according to a witness to the arrest. The[…]
There’s been a steady decline in the cultivation of opium poppy in recent years.
From 2015 to 2017, the production of poppy has decreased from 54,000 hectares to 41,000 hectares, so what’s behind this trend. . .
Malaysia has made its largest ever seizure of crystal methamphetamine, officials said on Monday, finding nearly 1.2 tonnes of the drug disguised as tea in a shipment from Burma, and arrested six suspected traffickers.
Win Myint, the long-serving member of Burma’s ruling party who is expected to become the country’s next president within days, is described by colleagues as a skilled political operator with a crucial quality — loyalty to de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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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.
An argument against staging Burma’s transition as a tale of good and evil.
A “dramatic” drop in opium cultivation in Burma has underscored a regional boom in demand for illegal synthetic drugs such as methamphetamine, which many Asian countries are struggling to combat.
A new national drug control policy is being drafted and will be implemented by the end of this year, according to Burma’s Ministry of Home Affairs.
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Most state-run drug rehabilitation centres in Burma accept men only.
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A sneak peek of a new children’s book portraying 15 everyday heroines of Burma was launched last week in Rangoon.
Olive Yang, the crossdressing royal-turned-warlord, died on Thursday. She was 90.
Burma remains one of the world’s largest producers of illicit drugs, including opium, heroin and methamphetamines.
The number of drug-related arrests during the Thingyan water festival was higher than last year, Burma’s national police announced today.
Aung San Suu Kyi’s government took over last April amid soaring hopes among both her backers in Western governments and ordinary voters at home. A year on things look very different.
A crackdown on graft in China is having trans-border implications for entrepreneurs in the self-proclaimed Wa State as business slows with a tightening of visa regulations.
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 tin likely ends up in an array of products made by US and other international companies, says a new Reuters report.
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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Kawthaung’s Anti-Narcotics Task Force say they found 299 bags of kratom leaves, with a street value placed at 4.119m kyat.
A policeman was injured in the melee when more than 20 men broke free a suspect caught by police with a stash of drugs in a forest.
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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.
The NLD’s ongoing narcotics crackdown has caught many drug addicts, but health experts say they should be treated as patients, not punished.
A surge in pseudoephedrine smuggled in from India is key to the boom in Burma’s methamphetamine production, say police and narcotics experts.
Lawmakers join military officials in urging the government to step up efforts to stem the growing problem of drug trafficking in Burma.