Narcotics Control Board secretary-general Niyom Termsrisuk has reported an increasing amount of heroin production in the Golden Triangle. The Golden Triangle which borders Chiang Rai Province...
"The seizure in Shan State, Myanmar one of the world’s biggest narcotics-producing regions put three major laboratories out of business"
Seizures of high-purity crystal methamphetamine have surged more than tenfold in Thailand over the past two years. Statistics show, a stark indicator of the growth in...
The methamphetamine trade is now worth between $30 billion and $61 billion per year. Meth is being smuggled from the Golden Triangle into Australia, New Zealand...
Officers at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi airport on Tuesday discovered 36kgs of crystal meth stashed in exercise equipment among air cargo bound for Japan.
The Golden Triangle is considered an important source of production. Narcotics officials wish to enhance the efficiency of drug detection and exchange information on the analysis...
Police found the vehicle a few kilometers down the road. The drug runners had driven the truck into roadside bushes and abandoned it. Highway Police found...
Shipments of methamphetamine have moved from Thailand to Malaysia and then other parts of Asia. There have been pronounced volume of methamphetamine to Lao, to circumvent...
BANGKOK – Drug suppression Police in Thailand said they have seized more than a ton of crystal meth “Ice” and over 10 million methamphetamine tablets in...
CHIANG RAI – Myanmar’s Shan State is on track to becoming the world’s biggest producer of methamphetamine and other synthetic drugs – a trade the United...
BANGKOK – Methamphetamine Pills (Yaba), Crystal Meth (Ya Ice) from Thailand’s Golden Triangle that borders, Thailand, Myamar and Laos remains a pressing problem for Thailand while...
CHIANG RAI – As night falls on the Mekong River in Northern Thailand, a nightly dance begins between Thai border security and Laos drug gangs now...
CHIANG RAI – Provincial Police Region 5 chief Lt-General Montri Sambunnanont has told a media briefing that drug suppression police arrested a drug suspects along with...
CHIANG RAI – Somchai Sophonsookpaiboon does not remember much about his younger years, except that they were spent in an opium haze. It’s how all the...
CHIANG RAI – Soldiers from the Pha Muang Task Force have shot and killed four men following a clash with 30 drug runners near the border...
BANGKOK – Thailand’s Office of Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) has intercepted more than 300 million methamphetamine pills and apprehended 177,067 suspects in 165,688 drug busts over...
CHIANG RAI – Production of methamphetamine (Yaba) is skyrocketing in Southeast Asia, with prices dropping and usage expanding, the U.N.’s anti-drug agency reports. Even as seizures...
BANGKOK – Sixteen-year-old Pichai Gudsorn is small for his age. He grew up in poverty, in a slum in Bangkok’s suburban Praram III area, with a...
CHIANG RAI – Authorities from four countries have intercepted drug precursors destined for the Golden Triangle and intended to make 30 million methamphetamine pills in...
CHIANG RAI – Methamphetamine drug cartels in the lawless jungles of eastern Myanmar are flooding neighboring countries with meth. In Thailand, Buddhist monks have been...
