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SMOP is a flop
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 08/10/2017
» Last Sunday night, an anti-drug squad caught two men carrying 400kg of crystal methamphetamine from Myanmar, ya ice worth 400 million baht on the street. On Monday and on Tuesday, police in Udon Thani and Mukdahan busted two cross-Mekong shipments of compressed marijuana from Laos, now Japan's major weed supplier. Combined, they weighed a tonne.
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The Big Issue: Shot fired, man down
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 26/03/2017
» Artist and activist Chaiyapoom Pasae, a Lahu, was shot and killed by a soldier at a drug checkpoint. That is the complete set of facts everyone agrees on.
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Mr X's gang unravels
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 12/02/2017
» Sayobphairee Operation 60/1, the biggest trafficking takedown since the army chased Khun Sa back to Myanmar, began with the largest drug bust outside a nightclub urine test-centre.
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The man who kills people
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 19/02/2017
» Sending two women assassins he probably vetted personally after his half-brother seems a weird act for the leader of a country. For Kim Jong-un and for his father and for his father's father, it was Monday.
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The big issue: Testing the water
Alan Dawson, Published on 28/09/2014
» The regime is beginning its fifth month in power with a couple of important outside trips. The message to the foreign community is — "We're here, we're not going away, so let's just get back to business as usual."
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THE BIG ISSUE: Finally, a Mr Big
Alan Dawson, Published on 28/09/2013
» There are, basically, two kinds of police - the honest kind and the other kind. As a result, there are two kinds of drug raids, the hopeful kind and the successful kind.
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A Thai outlet in Marijuanaville?
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 27/05/2013
» The following advertisement, paraphrased for brevity, is currently running in the US state of Colorado, and in slightly edited form across the entire United States: "Needed urgently, 64 tonnes of marijuana, FOB payment $84.48 million, completely legal, opportunity to build business 50-fold."
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HIV drug discovery puts licensing pressure on govt
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 17/06/2013
» A breakthrough joint medical study on an anti-Aids drug by the US and Bangkok City Hall has highlighted the need to address again the problem with health costs and, more importantly, the politically toxic issue of compulsory licensing, known as CL.
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