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Two nabbed with 5m meth pills in Phrae
Thaweesak Sukkhasem, Published on 25/11/2018
» PHRAE: Two men were arrested and about 5 million methamphetamine pills seized on Saturday in Song district of this northern province after a car chase, Pol Gen Chalermkiat Srivorakhan said at a press conference on Sunday.
5 drug couriers killed in Chiang Rai, 1m meth pills seized
Online Reporters, Published on 25/11/2018
» CHIANG RAI: Five drug couriers were killed in a clash with soldiers from the Pha Muang Force in the Doi Nang Non mountain range in Mae Sai district near the border with Myanmar on Saturday. One million methamphetamine pills were seized, according to media reports.
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.
100 arrested during drug raids
News, King-oua Laohong, Published on 23/11/2018
» More than 100 drug offenders were arrested overnight during raids in nine provinces across the country, according to the Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB).
Drug seizures in NE, North
Published on 22/11/2018
» CHIANG RAI/KHON KAEN: Two drug couriers have been arrested and 5 million methamphetamine pills seized in Chiang Rai province, and 550 kilogrammes of marijuana were found on an abandoned pickup truck that had crashed in Khon Kaen.
Double-faced drugs policy
News, Editorial, Published on 20/11/2018
» The government has become somewhat schizophrenic about its policies on banned drugs. It has sent mixed signals about the path to legalising medical marijuana. Providing a programme leading to the needed reform of law on illicit drugs is even less clear. In just the past few weeks, senior officials and ministers have indicated, rather, that they expect to renew and redoubled the "war on drugs" policies that have failed so badly.
Massive speed haul seized in weekend crackdown
News, Post Reporters, Published on 20/11/2018
» Authorities in Lampang arrested five people and confiscated 900,000 speed pills and almost 250 kilogrammes of crystal methamphetamine worth about 500 million baht in two separate cases over the weekend.
Aussie, Thai wife sentenced to death in drug case
Published on 17/11/2018
» The lawyer for an Australian man and his Thai wife sentenced to death in a drug smuggling case says he intends to appeal their conviction.
Nations unite in fight against drugs
News, King-oua Laohong, Published on 12/11/2018
» Heightened cooperation between six countries as part of the anti-drug Safe Mekong initiative has contributed to the interception of large drug hauls entering Thailand from neighbouring countries, Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) secretary-general Niyom Termsrisuk has revealed.
Police seize 14m meth pills, ice
News, Post Reporters, Published on 09/11/2018
» Police have announced the seizure of almost 14 million methamphetamine pills and more than 100 kg of crystal meth or ya ice in four separate cases in which three suspects were nabbed, according to deputy national police chief Chalermkiat Srivorakarn.