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Japan ties in line for boost
News, King-oua Laohong, Published on 02/05/2022
» The official visit by Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, the first of its kind in nine years, will not only help cement long-term Thai-Japanese relations but also spawn new trade and investment opportunities for both sides, believe some observers.
Drug-linked assets worth over B1bn seized from gang
News, King-oua Laohong, Published on 06/07/2021
» The Office of the Narcotics Control Board has seized over one billion baht worth of assets belonging to members of a major drug smuggling network in the North, ONCB secretary-general Wichai Chaimongkol said yesterday.
B1bn worth of drug assets seized
King-oua Laohong, Published on 05/07/2021
» The Office of the Narcotics Control Board has seized assets worth about 1.066 billion baht in total from alleged members of a major drug network in the North, ONCB secretary-general Wichai Chaimongkol said on Monday.
Minister: Thailand transit area for illicit drugs
King-oua Laohong, Published on 07/06/2021
» Thailand has been used by drug traders as a hub and transit area for the transport of drugs, particularly crystal methamphetamine or ice and heroin, to various countries, Justice Minister Somsak Thepsutin said on Monday.
Thailand seen as 'ketamine transit hub'
News, King-oua Laohong, Published on 13/01/2021
» Gangs in Taiwan, China and Thailand have colluded to smuggle ketamine into Thailand for re-export to lucrative markets in Malaysia and Hong Kong, a source in the Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) has revealed.
GMS meets to curb trade of precursors
News, King-oua Laohong, Published on 14/11/2019
» Thailand and the five other nations in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) yesterday launched a three-day meeting in Bangkok to discuss narcotics problems, with a focus on drug precursors, or the industrial chemicals that are used by narcotics producers.
'Golden Crescent' narcotics pouring in, warns minister
News, King-oua Laohong, Published on 29/10/2019
» Justice Minister Somsak Thepsutin has voiced concern that smugglers have turned to the so-called Golden Crescent as an alternative source of drugs trafficked to Thailand.
Drug route shifts from Thailand to Vietnam: minister
King-oua Laohong, Published on 08/09/2019
» Traffickers are now transporting drugs through Vietnam instead of Thailand, through which it has become more difficult to deliver drugs to third countries, Justice Minister Somsak Thepsutin said on Sunday.
Police bag Chinese 'mule' in Surin
News, King-oua Laohong, Published on 19/02/2019
» A suspected Chinese heroin smuggler who tried to pass himself off as a student has been nabbed in Surin under a Thai-Sino operation to intercept drugs increasingly destined for China at the hands of transnational drug traffickers.
As ever, money the root of many evils in 2018
News, King-oua Laohong, Published on 30/12/2018
» Former DSI chief Tarit Pengdith may have stolen the headlines this month after he received a one-year prison term for his role in the police station construction scandal. However, the team which he once headed handled a number of high-profile cases in 2018.