Former minister’s son caught at airport with firearms and drugs
Airport police said they found two pistols, 72 bullets, 12 methamphetamine pills, 1.5 grammes of powdered methamphetamine, and three walkie-talkies.
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Drugs Lead Story News Tenasserim
Kawthaung police seize kratom drug haul from longboat
Kawthaung’s Anti-Narcotics Task Force say they found 299 bags of kratom leaves, with a street value placed at 4.119m kyat.
Indian trader busted for smuggling 7 tonnes of gold from Burma
An Indian gold trader based in the northeastern state of Assam has been arrested for allegedly smuggling nearly nearly $300 million worth of gold from Burma.
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Lead Story Logging News Sagaing
Forestry Dept seizes 10 tons of timber from boat in Katha
The officials, based on a tipoff, searched the boat on the Irrawaddy River and found around 10 tons of timber in a hidden compartment.
Lead Story Logging News Sagaing
Search intensifies for killers of forestry officer
A band of illegal loggers who beat a forestry officer to death in Shwebo are still at large.
ASEAN Lead Story News Rohingya
Rohingya citizenship off the agenda at Bangkok summit
Burma does not consider the Rohingya citizens, rendering them effectively stateless, while denying it discriminates against them or that they are fleeing persecution.
Human Trafficking Lead Story News Refugees Rohingya
Southeast Asia urged not to repeat migrant crisis
Southeast Asian countries were urged on Tuesday to treat migrants landing on their shores humanely and avoid a repeat of this year’s disaster in which hundreds of refugees were either lost at sea or died in jungle camps.
Death toll climbs in Hpakant mining disaster
91 bodies have been pulled from a landslide near a jade mine in Kachin State and an estimated 100 people are still missing, an official told DVB on Sunday.
Kachin Lead Story Logging News
Life imprisonment for Chinese loggers in Kachin
153 of the men were handed the maximum punishment of life imprisonment, while two others, who are minors, were sentenced to 10 years.
Ta-ang army seize millions in narcotics
The Ta-ang National Liberation Army has claimed that they have seized over US$190,000 worth of narcotics in northern Shan State in one day.
Boatpeople Lead Story News Video
Rescues first priority for US as migrant summit begins
The United States said on Friday that thousands of migrants adrift in Southeast Asian seas needed urgent rescue, as countries gathered in Bangkok to discuss the regional crisis.
Lead Story Migrants Issues News Rohingya
Mass grave of migrants found in southern Thailand
More than 30 bodies have been pulled from shallow graves at a human-trafficking camp at the Thai-Malaysian border. Police say 20 more could be found.
Human Trafficking Lead Story Migrants Issues News
28 Burmese migrants rescued from suffocating truck
Twenty-eight illegal Burmese migrants were rescued from the back of a poorly ventilated pickup truck in Thailand’s Chumphon province and their two alleged traffickers arrested.
Lead Story News Refugees Rohingya Video
VDO: Thai vigilantes take up fight against human trafficking
A group of locals in Thailand’s Phang Nga province have armed themselves, to track down traffickers and free their human cargo.
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.
Lead Story Migrants Issues News Rohingya
Rohingya dies of suffocation in Thai smuggling truck
A woman has died after being smuggled by human-traffickers. Three traffickers have been arrested and the migrants held in bust by Thai authorities.
Trafficked teen rescued from China
A sixteen-year-old girl has been reunited with her family in Magwe, having been duped into travelling to China for work.
ASEAN must cooperate to curb Rohingya trafficking crisis
Countries in the region need to try harder to find solutions to the problem of Rohingya people who have been forced to leave Burma and ended up victims of human trafficking gangs, a forum was told.
Thai smugglers unlikely to be given pardons in Burma
The two remaining Thai detainees in the Kawthaung smuggling and trespassing case are hopeful of a presidential pardon, but Burmese authorities are showing no signs of leniency.
Burma at centre of elephant smuggling trade: report
Dec 11, 2008 (AFP)
Cattle smugglers arrested in Sagaing division
Dec 9, 2008 (DVB), Kathar township police arrested 21 cattle smugglers from Kantbalu township and seized 92 cows earlier this month in Sagaing division, according sources close to the police[…]
Unregistered motorbikes seized in Muse
Oct 22, 2008 (DVB), Authorities in the border town of Muse in Shan state seized over 1000 unregistered motorbikes last week, reportedly to meet transportation demands in the new capital[…]
Army commander's brother accused of smuggling goods
Sep 23, 2008 (DVB), The brother of the new Northeast Command chief has antagonized local drivers by reportedly freely smuggling black market goods along the Muse-Mandalay road, a major trade[…]
Boy killed as Thai police open fire on smuggler’s truck
Feb 28, 2008 (DVB), A 10-year old Arakanese boy was killed when Thai police opened fire on a truck carrying illegal Burmese migrants in Hat Yai, Thailand, the boy’s mother[…]
Girl sold to traffickers by her mother
Jan 23, 2008 (DVB), A seventeen-year-old Burmese girl, who escaped from human traffickers in the Thai border town of Mae Sot, said she had been sold to the traffickers by[…]
