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Scandal-hit Dhammakaya temple helps stage Myanmar event
Reuters, Published on 21/01/2018
» MANDALAY: Thousands of Buddhist monks gathered in Myanmar's second largest city on Sunday for an event partly organised by the scandal-hit Dhammakaya temple whose abbot is wanted for questioning on money-laundering allegations.
Bullets trump rehabilitation in drug war
Reuters, Published on 13/09/2016
» The Philippines is the site of the latest "war on drugs" escalation. It has killed at least 2,400 people in just two months, while neighbouring Indonesia has declared a "narcotics emergency" and resumed executing drug convicts after a long hiatus.
Bulging prisons prompt rethink of drug war
Reuters, Published on 18/07/2016
» Somsak Sreesomsong was 18 when he was jailed for selling illegal drugs. Now, turning 30, he is not yet half-way through his 33-year sentence at Bangkok's high-security Klong Prem prison.
21m ya ba tablets seized in record Myanmar bust
Reuters, Published on 30/05/2016
» YANGON -- Authorities in Myanmar seized roughly 21 million methamphetamine pills with a street value of around US$35.5 million near the border with China, state-owned media said on Monday, the country's second-largest haul of the narcotic.
Mekong nations take on Golden Triangle narco-empire
Reuters, Published on 16/03/2016
» THE MEKONG RIVER -- The Lao People's Army patrol boat was custom-made in China with night-vision capability and two of the most powerful engines on this remote stretch of the Mekong River.