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.
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’s Anti-Narcotics Task Force say they found 299 bags of kratom leaves, with a street value placed at 4.119m kyat.
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
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
A band of illegal loggers who beat a forestry officer to death in Shwebo are still at large.
ASEAN Lead Story News Rohingya
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 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.
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
153 of the men were handed the maximum punishment of life imprisonment, while two others, who are minors, were sentenced to 10 years.
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
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
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
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
A group of locals in Thailand’s Phang Nga province have armed themselves, to track down traffickers and free their human cargo.
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
A woman has died after being smuggled by human-traffickers. Three traffickers have been arrested and the migrants held in bust by Thai authorities.
A sixteen-year-old girl has been reunited with her family in Magwe, having been duped into travelling to China for work.
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.
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.
Dec 11, 2008 (AFP)
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