. BANG LAEM – Nearly a decade ago, Myanmar seemed on course to wipe out the opium fields and heroin jungle labs along its eastern border, the...
CHIANG RAI – The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has reported that Opium production in southeast Asia’s “Golden Triangle” has tripled since...
WASHINGTON – The U.S. State Department has condemned Thailand for its failure to live up to standards we set for the treatment of migrant...
– BANGKOK – Paul Robilliard has been appointed as Australia’s next Ambassador to Thailand, he is expected to replace James Wise in October. Mr Robilliard is...
MYANMAR – Authorities in Myanmar (Burma) have seized 234.32 million baht ($7.3 million) of drugs buried in a forest in the so-called “Golden Triangle”, police...
CHIANG RAI – Cultivation of opium in Southeast Asia’s notorious Golden Triangle region has doubled in the past decade, according to an in-depth study that...
BANGKOK – A Thai truck driver who knocked down and killed a British couple on a round-the-world cycling adventure escaped with a fine of just...
RANONG – Thai police have busted a transnational drug ring and confiscated more than 147 kilograms of heroin,with a street value of more than Bt3...
SEPANG – Malaysia turned the search for Flight 370 into a criminal investigation on Saturday, after the prime minister declared in a news conference that...
HANOI – Thirty people have been sentenced to death for smuggling over 12 tons of heroin in Vietnam after the country’s biggest ever drugs trial....
CHIANG RAI – The United Nations says opium production in Myanmar continued to increase in 2013, in part because poppy farmers had few other ways to...
CHIANG RAI – Official efforts to stamp out opium production in Myanmar are falling flat because poor farmers don’t have alternative ways to make a living,...
PHUKET — British kickboxer Lee Aldouse was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Thursday for the murder of former U.S. marine Dashawn Longfellow following...
CHIANG RAI – Seizures of crystal meth and methamphetamine pills reached record highs in East and Southeast Asia in 2012, with Myanmar retaining its status...
CHIANG RAI – Thai Narcotics Suppression Police announced Friday a huge seizure of more than 5.3 million methamphetamine pills — worth about $30 million USD...
CHIANG RAI – Myanmar authorities claim to have discovered over US$1.3 million worth of methamphetamine tablets buried by the late drug kingpin Naw Kham near...
PHUKET – British kickboxer Lee Aldhouse has pleaded guilty to murdering a former US Marine during a bar fight in Thailand, his lawyer said, reversing...
CHIANG RAI – Children in Thailand are at risk as makers of stimulants like methamphetamine aka yaba entice young with candy flavours and Facebook sales....
CHIANG RAI – The Drug Suppression Forces have seized some 980,000 illegal methamphetamine pills worth almost six million dollars stashed in a truck thought to...
CHIANGRAI – A Thai police gunboat prowls the waters of the Mekong River searching for the drug gangs that haunt this territory deep in the...