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Violence-hit Ecuador chooses next president
AFP, Published on 09/02/2025
» QUITO - Some 14 million Ecuadorans began voting Sunday to decide who will lead their violence-wracked Andean nation through its worst crisis in half a century.
US pharmacy chain Rite Aid files for bankruptcy
AFP, Published on 16/10/2023
» NEW YORK - US pharmacy chain Rite Aid filed for bankruptcy Sunday, the company said, after suffering declining sales and legal threats over its alleged involvement in the opioid crisis.
Traffickers dealing in abortion pills
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 31/07/2022
» Last November, Xaiana, a 23-year-old college student in northern Brazil, began exchanging text messages with a drug dealer in the south of the country. Following the dealer's instructions, she transferred 1,500 reais (10,000 baht), her living expenses for several months. Then, she waited three agonising weeks for the arrival in the mail of a blister pack of eight unmarked white pills.
Poppy farmers embrace green energy
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 12/06/2022
» For years, opium has been the monster too big to slay. One Afghan government after another has pledged to stamp out opium production and trafficking, only to prove unable to resist billions of dollars in illicit profits.
Amber Heard says 'love of my life' Johnny Depp was abusive when drunk
AFP, Published on 05/05/2022
» WASHINGTON: Actress Amber Heard testified on Wednesday that her ex-husband, "Pirates of the Caribbean" star Johnny Depp, was obsessively jealous and would punch walls and slap and hit her in drunken rages.
US drug firms agree to $1.18bn opioid settlement in New York
AFP, Published on 21/07/2021
» NEW YORK: The three largest US drug distributors have agreed to pay up to $1.18 billion to the state of New York over their role in the opioid crisis, the state's top prosecutor announced Tuesday.
PM deserves more credit
News, Postbag, Published on 17/01/2021
» Chairith Yonpiam in his Jan 16 article, "PM's words ring hollow over scandals", fails to give the Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha credit for his one consistently demonstrated skill: he excels at making up lame excuses that some people, amazing but true, actually manage to believe, or at least pretend to believe.
Somsak: Medical kratom to be legal soon
News, King-oua Laohong, Published on 16/01/2020
» Kratom will likely be taken off the national narcotics drug list in June this year, in a move to unlock its medical and economic benefits.
Meth boom adds to Afghanistan's opium and heroin woes
AFP, Published on 19/12/2019
» KABUL - At a sprawling rehabilitation centre on the outskirts of Kabul, dozens of dazed-looking drug addicts clamber out of police buses and shuffle toward the facility.
America's endless battle against lethal drug fentanyl
AFP, Published on 18/10/2019
» NEW YORK - In a windowless hangar at New York's John F. Kennedy airport, dozens of law enforcement officers sift through packages, looking for fentanyl -- a drug that is killing Americans every day.