BANGKOK – Pol Lt Gen Worasak Nopsitthiporn, commissioner of the Provincial Police Region 6, told a press conference on Friday that Jan Saengbangsai, the 32-year-old...
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...
PHUKET – Australian National Mark Robert Coutelas is one of the first foreigners to be caught in the heavy net of Thailand’s martial law that...
Young malaria patient in northern Thailand. BANGKOK – The National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA) has said that for the first time, Thai researchers...
CHIANG RAI -The Lahu people, mostly living in districts bordering Myanmar in Chiang Rai and Chiang Mai provinces, say they have been living in a...
Garry Halpin was arrested with 18 grams of crystal methamphetamine hidden in his pocket PHUKET – New Zealand National Garry Halpin who volunteed with the Phuket...
PATTAYA – The captain of a ferry that capsized about 1,500 meters offshore from Pattaya on Sunday evening has turned himself in, telling police he...
KOH SAMUI – 52-year-old British National Walter Douglas once described by police as Scotland’s main drugs dealer – has been found by Sunday People investigators...
CHIANG RAI – From the banks of the Mekong River in the tiny port of Xieng Kok in northwestern Laos, it is just a couple...
CHIANG RAI – Pol Gen Somyos Poompanmuang has told news reporters that four men have been arrested with illegal drugs worth more than 400 million...
CHINA – The number of drug addicts in China had increased to 2.26 million as of late June, up 16.5 percent from June 2012, the...
CHIANG RAI – Drug Suppression officers have reported that a suspected drug runner has been killed and 200,000 methamphetamine pills, aka yaba has been seized in...
BANGKOK – Saffron-robed Buddhist monks’ involvement in sex, drugs, murder and corruption is being increasingly exposed in Thailand, thanks to YouTube, resulting in shock, dismay,...
BEIJING – Drugs worth more than $400 million have been seized in a two-month multinational operation targeting crime along the Mekong River, China’s drug enforcement...
BEIJING -Drugs smuggled from the Golden Triangle region (comprising parts of Thailand, Laos and Myanmar) account for 60 to 70 percent of all drugs that...
AYUTTHAYA – Thai authorities incinerated 10 billion baht worth of narcotics on Wednesday in a bid to tackle their reputations as hubs for illicit substances...
CHIANG RAI – Anti-narcotic police have revealed that most illegal drugs seized from smugglers belong to an ethnic group in Myanmar living near northern Thai...
CHIANG RAI – Maj Gen Somsak Nilbanjerdkul of the Pha Muang force has told reporters that early Tuesday morning they recovered 1.66 million methamphetamine pills and...
CHIANG RAI -Thailand, China and the four other Mekong Region nations vowed on Thursday to boost cooperation in the fight against illegal drugs, which they...
CHIANGRAI – Chiang Rai police have arrested Surapong Sae-Song, 22 an ethnic Hmong man in Chiang Rai province Wednesday and seized one million amphetamine pills...