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dpa, Published on 23/12/2014
» ROME — Ten years on from the devastating tsunami of 2004, Southeast Asian nations have made "impressive" strides in natural-disaster prevention, the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization says.
dpa, Published on 06/10/2014
» Police rescued 13 Lao women and girls who had been forced into sex slavery, officials confirmed Monday.
dpa, Published on 04/03/2014
» Increased economic integration in East and South-East Asia is expected to lead to a rise in regional trade in heroin and methamphetamines, the United Nations said Tuesday.
dpa, Published on 03/03/2014
» Thai police have arrested a French-Portuguese man allegedly involved in an attempt to smuggle 305 kilogrammes of cocaine into France.
dpa, Published on 18/12/2013
» The area of Myanmar under opium poppy cultivation increased 13% this year compared to 2012 to reach 57,800 hectares, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said Wednesday.
dpa, Published on 15/12/2013
» Human rights groups on Sunday gathered outside the Lao embassy in Bangkok to mark the disappearance of Lao civil society leader Sombath Somphone in Vientiane a year ago.
dpa, Published on 30/08/2013
» VIENTIANE - Lao authorities are searching for the leader of a drug trafficking ring after uncovering 257 kilogrammes of marijuana in a house in the centre of the country, news reports said on Friday.
dpa, Published on 19/07/2013
» PHNOM PENH - Maj-Gen Sanyahak Phomvihane, a fast-rising star in the ruling communist party in Laos, has died aged 45, state media reported Friday.
dpa, Published on 21/05/2013
» Police from four countries have detained more than 800 suspects and shut down several drug rings in a crackdown on gangs operating along the Mekong River, Chinese state media said on Tuesday.
dpa, Published on 23/04/2013
» Security and economic issues will be top of the agenda when leaders of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (Asean) meet in Brunei this week, a diplomatic source said Tuesday.