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    Tagged: smuggling

    Drugs Lead Story News

    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.

    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.

    Crime Lead Story News

    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.

    Kachin Lead Story News

    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.

    Drugs Lead Story News Shan

    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.

    Rescues first priority for US as migrant summit begins video

    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.

    VDO: Thai vigilantes take up fight against human trafficking video

    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.

    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.

    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 video

    Crime Lead Story News Video

    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.

    Lead Story News Rohingya

    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.

    Lead Story News Politics

    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.

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    Burma at centre of elephant smuggling trade: report

    Dec 11, 2008 (AFP)

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    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[…]

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    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[…]

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    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[…]

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    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[…]

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    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[…]

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