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Three charged over Australia's largest meth seizure
Associated Press, Published on 05/12/2019
» CANBERRA: Three people have been charged with drug offences over Australia's largest seizure of methamphetamine, which had been smuggled to Melbourne from Bangkok in stereo speakers.
At least 14 dead in Mexico gun battle
Associated Press, Published on 01/12/2019
» MEXICO CITY: Mexican security forces fought an hour-long gun gun battle Saturday with suspected cartel gunmen in Villa Union, a town in Coahuila state about an hour's drive southwest of Eagle Pass, Texas, leaving at least 14 people dead, officials said.
Philippines seizes huge drugs stash, arrests Chinese
Associated Press, Published on 27/11/2019
» MANILA: Philippine police have arrested a suspected Chinese drug trafficker and seized from him one of this year's largest stashes of illegal drugs.
Burger King brings a plant-based Whopper to Europe
Associated Press, Published on 12/11/2019
» Burger King is introducing a plant-based burger in Europe. But it's not the Impossible Whopper that's been a hit with US customers.
VP accepts Duterte's offer for her to play role in drug war
Associated Press, Published on 06/11/2019
» MANILA: The vice president of the Philippines on Wednesday accepted President Rodrigo Duterte's offer for her to play a lead role in his deadly crackdown against drugs, even though she's been critical of the campaign and has been warned it could be a political ploy to destroy her.
Philippines: Indonesia woman nabbed with drugs from Cambodia
Associated Press, Published on 07/10/2019
» MANILA: Philippine authorities say they've arrested an Indonesian woman who was carrying 54 million pesos (about 30 million baht) worth of illegal drugs in her carry-on bag from her flight from Cambodia, amid a crackdown on drug smuggling attempts.
Half-tonne of meth found in electric motors imported from Thailand
Associated Press, Published on 06/09/2019
» WELLINGTON: New Zealand authorities say they found about half a tonne of methamphetamine hidden inside a shipment of 60 electric motors from Thailand.
At least 57 dead in Brazil prison riot; 16 decapitated
Associated Press, Published on 30/07/2019
» RIO DE JANEIRO: At least 57 prisoners were killed by other inmates during clashes between organised crime groups in the Altamira prison in northern Brazil Monday with 16 of the victims being decapitated, according to prison officials.
UN: Organised crime spreading in Southeast Asia
Associated Press, Published on 18/07/2019
» Organised crime syndicates in Southeast Asia are flourishing in the illegal trafficking of drugs, wildlife, counterfeit goods and people, a UN report said Thursday.
Philippines says 8,000 police punished over drug killings
Associated Press, Published on 18/07/2019
» MANILA: A Philippine official says thousands of police officers have received administrative punishments, and more than 2,000 were dismissed, for wrongdoings during raids where drug suspects were killed.