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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.