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    Tagged: methamphetamine

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    Change brewing in Burma’s poppy country?

    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. . .

    Lead Story News

    Police seize drugs worth over $1 million in Shan and Karen State

    Drugs worth approximately 1.6 billion kyat ($1.15 million USD) were seized in Shan State over the weekend.

    Drugs Lead Story News

    Drug smuggler, thought to be Burmese ethnic, shot dead in Thailand

    The unidentified man was found lying dead with a green rucksack on his back containing methamphetamine pills.

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    Drugs Lead Story News

    How India helps fuel Burma’s meth boom

    A surge in pseudoephedrine smuggled in from India is key to the boom in Burma’s methamphetamine production, say police and narcotics experts.

    Crime Drugs Lead Story News

    Suspects in massive drug haul still at large: police

    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.

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    Drugs Lead Story News

    Up in smoke

    Burmese police hosted a drug-burning ceremony on Friday morning at a truck terminal in Hlaing Tharyar, in the western suburbs of Rangoon.

    Crime Drugs Lead Story News Shan

    Prisoner’s father masterminded jailbreak, says Taunggyi police

    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.

    Drugs Lead Story News

    New bridge to Laos stokes drug trafficking fears

    While the opening of the first Myanmar-Laos Friendship Bridge brings economic benefits, it has also raised concerns over drug trafficking.

    Drugs Lead Story News

    Green tea packages unveiled as crystal meth

    Six Burmese nationals have been arrested in Thailand, after they were caught smuggling 14kgs of crystal methamphetamine disguised as green tea.

    Drugs Lead Story News

    Police bust amphetamine smugglers on Moei River

    Thai police have seized a large amount of amphetamine pills on an alluvial island in the Moei River, underneath the Thai-Burma Friendship Bridge.

    Drugs Lead Story News Protest

    Drug protests spread to Moenyin

    Protestors say local authorities have failed to tackle serious drug problems in the area, which is rife with heroin and methamphetamine use.

    Drugs Health Lead Story News

    War and drugs: a deadly combination

    KWAT reports that the escalation of drug abuse in Kachin State is fuelled by the ongoing conflict in the region.

    Drugs Lead Story News

    Drug-laden truck crashes in Shan State

    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.

    Drugs Lead Story News Society

    Burmese boy, 7, used as drugs mule in Thailand

    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.

    Lead Story News Politics

    Burma fuelling ‘record high’ meth seizures in Asia: UN

    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.

    Analysis

    Where is Burma’s ‘war on methamphetamine’?

    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

    News Politics

    Burma MPs complicit in drug trade: report

    Seven MPs from ruling party have hand in Shan state’s lucrative heroin and methamphetamine industry, new report claims

    News Politics

    Thai, Burma police in drugs’ talks

    Senior police officials head to Naypyidaw to discuss ways in which to combat trafficking across the lengthy and porous border

    News Politics

    MP bids for stronger anti-drugs policy

    People’s Parliament representative also calls for better crop substitution schemes in a bid to halt Burma’s lucrative drug trade

    Health News Politics

    Burmese ‘yaba’ finds new Asian market

    Methamphetamine being trafficked into Bangladesh with increasing frequency where prices can triple upon reaching Dhaka

    News Politics

    US says Burma ‘fails’ in drugs fight

    Burma among three countries the US claims has ‘failed demonstrably’ in anti-narcotics efforts as Thailand steps up war on drugs

    News Politics

    Shan army seizes ‘heroin factories’

    Bases belonging to pro-junta Pa-O militia rumoured to be stocking material for heroin production raided as US releases damning drugs report

    Analysis News

    Is drug policy a human rights abuser?

    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

    News Politics

    Burma would ‘welcome’ US anti-drugs support

    Oct 12, 2009 (DVB), Support from the United States in Burma's anti-narcotics efforts would be welcomed by the junta, state media reported yesterday. The US "is willing to work together[…]

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