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11 drug plants 'churn out 20m pills a day'
News, Post Reporters, Published on 09/04/2018
» The Narcotics Suppression Bureau admitted Sunday that at least 11 drug manufacturing facilities were located "near Thailand's northern border" with a combined daily production capacity of more than 20 million pills.
US seizes 100 'pot-growing' houses linked to China
AFP, Published on 05/04/2018
» LOS ANGELES - Federal agents seized more than 100 homes in one of the largest residential drug busts in US history in a bid to combat Chinese-run marijuana operations, the government said Wednesday.
Troops seize massive haul of speed, meth
News, Post Reporters, Published on 04/04/2018
» Almost 10 million speed pills and nearly 800 kilogrammes of crystal methamphetamine with a street value of 1.7 billion baht were seized late on Monday night in Wiang Kaen district of Chiang Rai.
Philippine police say 13 killed in one day of drug busts
Reuters, Published on 22/03/2018
» MANILA: Philippine police killed 13 suspected drug dealers and arrested more than 100 people in dozens of anti-narcotics operations on Wednesday in a province north of the capital, its police chief said.
10 killed in night of drug busts in Philippines
Reuters, Published on 23/02/2018
» MANILA: Philippine police killed 10 suspected drug peddlers and arrested 63 people in dozens of operations during the single deadliest night of the country's ferocious war on drugs since police resumed participation in early December.
Aussie bust 'part of wider probe'
News, Post Reporters, Published on 13/12/2017
» The recent arrest of an Australian man and his Thai wife at Suvarnabhumi airport is part of an ongoing investigation into a drug haul seized in June 2015, a senior police officer says.
Duterte threatens to restart drug war
Reuters, Published on 23/11/2017
» MANILA: There is a "strong likelihood" Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte will lift a suspension on police from his war on drugs, his spokesman said on Thursday, a move likely to alarm activists who accuse police of committing murder under the guise of drug busts.
1,268kg of ganja seized in South
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 16/09/2017
» Police seized 1,268 kilogrammes of compressed marijuana and arrested one suspected drug dealer following separate searches in Songkhla and Satun on Friday.
At least 80 dead in Philippines war on drugs
Reuters, Published on 18/08/2017
» MANILA -- Police killed at least 13 people in Manila on the third night of an escalation in President Rodrigo Duterte's ruthless war on drugs and crime, taking the toll for one of the bloodiest weeks so far to 80, Reuters witnesses and media reported on Friday.
Kindness goes long way
News, Postbag, Published on 13/07/2017
» Re: "A helping hand for our wasted food," (Commentary, July 12).