Arakan Crime Drugs Lead Story News
As part of a recently launched crackdown on illegal narcotics in Arakan State, Burmese police seized over 4.6 million yaba pills in Maungdaw Township allegedly belonging to a monk, who has been accused of stashing the drugs in his monastery.
Methamphetamine being trafficked into Bangladesh with increasing frequency where prices can triple upon reaching Dhaka
Aug 26, 2009 (DVB), A massive haul of methamphetamine pills was seized at the Burma border town of Tachilek on Monday, along with 721kg of heroin and two guns, Burmese[…]
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.
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.
More than 500,000 methamphetamine tablets were seized between Zula and Makyee Kone villages in Rakhine State on Wednesday morning, according to the Maungdaw district police force.
Arakan Crime Drugs Lead Story News
The Burmese Navy in Arakan State’s Maungdaw Township yesterday seized more than 180,000 yaba pills on the Naf River bordering Bangladesh.
Crime Drugs Lead Story News Tenasserim
Authorities in the coastal town of Myeik, Tenasserim Division, have issued an arrest warrant for a military intelligence officer with alleged connections to the illicit narcotics trade.
Crime Drugs Lead Story News Pegu Division
The translator for a South Korean NGO worker under police investigation for alleged possession of yaba pills has been detained, according to local police.
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Burma, along with other countries in Asia, is stepping up its efforts to stem a growing tide of drugs, but its approach is unlikely to succeed, say experts.
A surge in pseudoephedrine smuggled in from India is key to the boom in Burma’s methamphetamine production, say police and narcotics experts.
The three men were rescued from a Chonburi dock after their boat returned to shore.
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.
The Ta-ang National Liberation Army has claimed that they have seized over US$190,000 worth of narcotics in northern Shan State in one day.
Three suspects were shot dead and three policemen seriously injured on Saturday, when several detainees attempted to break out of a police station’s detention cell in eastern Burma.
A man carrying almost 50,000 methamphetamine pills with an estimated street value of K93.6m (US$93,000) was arrested by police after crashing his truck after a high-speed chase, Monday.
Undercover Thai police officers and anti-narcotic officials in Mae Sot recovered 8 million baht worth of Yaba pills from Kokko village during a sting operation on the Burmese side of the border
China’s Ruili has seen a tenfold increase in migrants from Burma since 2006, many of whom are women facing workplace abuse
Seven MPs from ruling party have hand in Shan state’s lucrative heroin and methamphetamine industry, new report claims
Bases belonging to pro-junta Pa-O militia rumoured to be stocking material for heroin production raided as US releases damning drugs report
Culprit who also died in gun battle with Shan state police was suspected of belonging to a local milita with links to the drugs trade
Fighting erupts after Wa unit suspected of carrying drugs across Burma’s border into Thailand refuses order to stop for searching
UN report warns production and seizures of methamphetamine produced in Burma has soared in the past year while opium cultivation falls
Prohibition on the global drugs industry is born of a moralistic, not pragmatic, viewpoint and has had a devastating impact on poor countries such as Burma
Nov 27, 2009 (DVB), Figures released by the United Nations' drugs agency show that use of methamphetamine in Burma is on the rise, and is having an increasingly detrimental effect[…]
Nov 19, 2009 (DVB), More than 270 people were arrested in Burma in October on drugs charges while police exposed 199 drug-related cases, state-media said today. The quantity of drugs[…]
Nov 16, 2009 (DVB), Burmese troops have razed huts and infrastructure belonging to illegal Burmese settlers on an island on the Thaung Yin (or Moei) river, which separates Burma's eastern[…]
Nov 2, 2009 (DVB), Around $US20 million worth of seized drugs were destroyed by Burmese police during a "ceremony" last week in northern Burma, state-run media reported today. The event[…]
