There’s been a steady decline in the cultivation of opium poppy in recent years.
From 2015 to 2017, the production of poppy has decreased from 54,000 hectares to 41,000 hectares, so what’s behind this trend. . .
Drugs worth approximately 1.6 billion kyat ($1.15 million USD) were seized in Shan State over the weekend.
The unidentified man was found lying dead with a green rucksack on his back containing methamphetamine pills.
A surge in pseudoephedrine smuggled in from India is key to the boom in Burma’s methamphetamine production, say police and narcotics experts.
A year after more than US$100 million worth of methamphetamine tablets was seized from an abandoned truck in Rangoon, police say the main suspects remain at large.
An estimated 27 million methamphetamine tablets were found in sacks in an abandoned truck in the industrial suburb of Mingalardon.
Burmese police hosted a drug-burning ceremony on Friday morning at a truck terminal in Hlaing Tharyar, in the western suburbs of Rangoon.
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Four armed men who broke free an inmate from a prison truck and drove him to safety in Shan State last week were hired by his father, according to police.
While the opening of the first Myanmar-Laos Friendship Bridge brings economic benefits, it has also raised concerns over drug trafficking.
Six Burmese nationals have been arrested in Thailand, after they were caught smuggling 14kgs of crystal methamphetamine disguised as green tea.
Thai police have seized a large amount of amphetamine pills on an alluvial island in the Moei River, underneath the Thai-Burma Friendship Bridge.
Protestors say local authorities have failed to tackle serious drug problems in the area, which is rife with heroin and methamphetamine use.
KWAT reports that the escalation of drug abuse in Kachin State is fuelled by the ongoing conflict in the region.
A man carrying almost 50,000 methamphetamine pills with an estimated street value of K93.6m (US$93,000) was arrested by police after crashing his truck after a high-speed chase, Monday.
A seven-year-old Burmese boy with only a backpack was found crying at a roadside in Thong Pha Phum district in Thailand’s Kanchanaburi province after being tricked into carrying almost 10,000 methamphetamine pills.
Burma continues to be the primary source of methamphetamine type stimulants in East and Southeast Asia, contributing to record high seizures in 2012, the UN said on Friday.
Surging production in the poppy fields and methamphetamine factories in Burma’s remote borderlands is stoking fears of a drug crisis that is sweeping young people into addiction. Authorities in the[…]
A senior Thai politician on Thursday accused neighbouring Burma of failing to tackle drug production after 3.3 million amphetamine tablets were seized in Bangkok
Burmese authorities on Monday hailed progress in their war on drugs after a multi-million dollar seizure at a narcotics factory in eastern Shan state as drug dealers were gunned down in northern Thailand
Burma’s reinvigorated ‘war on opium’ serves to distract from the fact that the methamphetamine trade is both a far greater problem, and one that Burmese troops and members of the government play a key role in
Picture “grows dimmer” when combined with growth of amphetamine trade in Southeast Asia, says ominous UN drugs report
Seven MPs from ruling party have hand in Shan state’s lucrative heroin and methamphetamine industry, new report claims
Thai border unit, acting on a tip-off, discover truck in Chiang Rai carrying 95kg of crystal methamphetamine and 3.4kg of heroin from Burma
Senior police officials head to Naypyidaw to discuss ways in which to combat trafficking across the lengthy and porous border
People’s Parliament representative also calls for better crop substitution schemes in a bid to halt Burma’s lucrative drug trade
Southeast Asia remerges as major global drugs hub with Burma a prime source of the methamphetamine sweeping the region
Methamphetamine being trafficked into Bangladesh with increasing frequency where prices can triple upon reaching Dhaka
Burma among three countries the US claims has ‘failed demonstrably’ in anti-narcotics efforts as Thailand steps up war on drugs
Bases belonging to pro-junta Pa-O militia rumoured to be stocking material for heroin production raided as US releases damning drugs report
Prohibition on the global drugs industry is born of a moralistic, not pragmatic, viewpoint and has had a devastating impact on poor countries such as Burma
