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Meth smuggling on the increase, says ONCB boss
News, King-oua Laohong, Published on 26/08/2018
» The Office of Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) has admitted a sharp increase in the smuggling of crystal meth and speed pills this year, saying producers have managed to double their production despite multinational efforts to curb them.
Heroin production on the rise in Golden Triangle
News, King-oua Laohong, Published on 04/04/2020
» An increasing amount of heroin produced in the Golden Triangle -- the world's largest opium-producing area -- has been found circulating in Thailand.
Kratom plants 'legal to grow' from Aug 24
News, King-oua Laohong, Published on 16/07/2021
» Kratom, the plant formerly listed as a narcotic, should be legal to grow from Aug 24, Justice Minister Somsak Thepsuthin said on Thursday.
Focusing on the bright side
News, King-oua Laohong, Published on 04/01/2021
» Vichai Chaimongkol had only been promoted as the Office of the Narcotics Control Board's secretary-general for three months when he held a news conference to announce what was thought to be Thailand's largest ketamine bust, only to find out later that the haul was mostly trisodium phosphate.
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).
As cost of meth falls, so do rewards paid
King-oua Laohong, Published on 22/07/2020
» It is costing drug traffickers less to make methamphetamine and crystal meth and prices have fallen, so the rewards paid for drug seizures should also be lowered, Justice Minister Somsak Thepsuthin said on Wednesday.
Rehab begins in the kitchen for Nakhon Sawan cons
News, King-oua Laohong, Published on 19/12/2021
» Many former inmates, including some convicted of drug trafficking, begin their re-entry into civilian life months before being released from prison by working at a chili sauce factory in Nakhon Sawan.
Crystal meth in exported monastic goods
King-oua Laohong, Published on 05/08/2021
» More than a kilogramme of crystal methamphetamine was found hidden in monastic apparel and a box of pain-killing patches at Suvarnabhumi airport on Wednesday, the Office of the Narcotics Control Board said.
B1bn worth of drug assets seized
King-oua Laohong, Published on 05/07/2021
» The Office of the Narcotics Control Board has seized assets worth about 1.066 billion baht in total from alleged members of a major drug network in the North, ONCB secretary-general Wichai Chaimongkol said on Monday.
Drug-linked assets worth over B1bn seized from gang
News, King-oua Laohong, Published on 06/07/2021
» The Office of the Narcotics Control Board has seized over one billion baht worth of assets belonging to members of a major drug smuggling network in the North, ONCB secretary-general Wichai Chaimongkol said yesterday.