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In Mekong region, drug trade thrives
Oped, Johanna Son, Published on 15/07/2021
» An example of a resilient business model in hard times? Indeed, except that this describes how the synthetic drug industry has been expanding in East and Southeast Asia, home to the Mekong region which is the manufacturing and trafficking hub that supplies illicit drugs that reach not just the wider Asia but the globe.
Drug precursor output rising in Golden Triangle
Published on 12/02/2021
» Crime syndicates in the Golden Triangle region are believed to have begun producing ingredients to manufacture methamphetamine, enabling them to avoid restrictions on importing precursors such as pseudoephedrine and ephedrine.
Diego Maradona, a divine talent with more than a touch of the devil
AFP, Published on 26/11/2020
» BUENOS AIRES - Diego Maradona was football's archetypal troubled genius, a world-beating player whose life and career scaled the most dazzling heights but also plumbed the darkest depths.
Cheaper precursors fuelling speed glut
Published on 24/11/2018
» Taiwanese chemists are a driving force behind the glut of methamptetamine flooding the Mekong region after they tweaked the recipe to dodge controls on other precursor chemicals, authorities say.
Thai, Aussie agencies to keep up fight against drugs
News, King-oua Laohong, Published on 08/11/2018
» Thailand and Australia have agreed to continue their Taskforce Storm operation to combat drug trafficking, an industry that is believed to fund terrorism.
No sign of 'zombie' drug here
News, King-oua Laohong, Published on 11/10/2017
» No signs of alpha-Pyrrolidinopentiophenone (Alpha-PVP), a synthetic stimulant also known as flakka or bath salts, have been detected in Thailand so far, the Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) says.
Thais helped smuggle tonnes of ephedrine to Australia
King-oua Laohong, Published on 10/10/2017
» Thais are suspected of involvement in the smuggling of 3.9 tonnes of the methamphetamine precursor ephedrine from the Golden Triangle to Australia last month, according to the Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB).
Oishi cooperating in drug investigation
Online Reporters, Published on 07/10/2017
» Oishi, the country's biggest producer of ready-to-drink green tea, says it will cooperate fully with authorities investigating a huge seizure by Australian authorities of methamphetamine ingredients concealed in Oishi bottles and cartons.
Australia seizes record haul of meth ingredient from Thailand
Published on 06/10/2017
» SYDNEY: Australian authorities have seized a record haul of 3.9 tonnes of a methamphetamine ingredient smuggled from Thailand in tea bottles, police said on Friday.
Fighting the vicious circle in the Golden Triangle
Spectrum, Published on 20/08/2017
» It took almost four hours to travel along the 160-kilometre mountainous route from Myanmar's town of Tachileik, bordering Chiang Rai, to Kengtung in the eastern state of Shan, but the officials from six neighbouring countries were determined to reach the town in a bid to establish an anti-drug centre in the state known to be a hotbed of drug production.