Thailand’s Government is putting together a six-month campaign tackling drug problems, call centre gangs, and human trafficking, Deputy Prime Minister Phumtham Wechayachai said on January 20.
Authorities in the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum have arrested a man for transporting approximately 3 kilograms of drugs from Laos to Vietnam in the area of Iec village, Po Y commune, Ngoc Hoi district, the province's Border Guard Command reported on December 31.
The Thai government on June 26 announced that the country has burned more than 20 tonnes of confiscated narcotic drugs worth 6.45 billion THB (175 million USD) to mark the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking.
Cambodian officials on June 14 announced that they have destroyed of 4.1 tonnes of narcotic drugs and precursors worth 22.7 million USD seized from across the Southeast Asian country.
Operation Mekong Dragon V (OMD V), a programme cracking down on drugs and wildlife trafficking in the Asia-Pacific region, was deployed from April 15 to November 16, 2023. Some 25 customs and law enforcement agencies and international organisations participated in the scheme, resulting in the seizure of 1,715 drugs and wildlife trafficking cases.
Cambodian authorities arrested 9,034 drug-related suspects, including 167 foreigners, during the first half of 2023, according to the country’s Anti-Drug Police Department (ADP).
The People’s Court of the northwestern province of Son La handed out 10 death penalties and one life sentence to members of a drug trafficking ring during trials from June 1-5.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on April 11 suggested the Ministry of Health (MoH) assign capable medical facilities to build medicine centres in six socio-economic regions nationwide, which will serve others when needed.
Cambodia’s anti-drug police have arrested a gang of 11 foreigners who were suspected of producing illicit drugs and confiscated nearly two tonnes of narcotics in Phnom Penh and three other provinces, the Khmer Times reported.
Malaysia’s Ministry of Health (MoH) has called on Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member states to take a major step up in financial support to bring diagnostics, drugs and drug regimens as well as vaccines to market as a new tool to fight tuberculosis (TB).
The Drug Administration of Vietnam (DAV) under the Ministry of Health (MoH) has announced the prices of COVID-19 treatment drugs containing active ingredient Molnupiravir produced by three Vietnamese manufacturers.
Over 31 kg of drugs of various types have been found in multiple parcels sent from abroad by mail and express mail to Ho Chi Minh City, the city’s Customs Department announced on January 13.
Customs and police officers in Ho Chi Minh City on November 24 found more than 20kg of drugs of various kinds when checking nine express delivery parcels.
Over 100kg of drugs were seized and 15 more suspects were arrested as a result of expanded investigation into a drug trafficking ring that transported drugs by sea from HCM City to the Republic of Korea.
The Ministry of Public Security revealed on March 25 that it had handled a total of 30,196 law violation cases from November 16, 2018 to February 15, 2019.
A seminar was held in Hanoi on October 29 to discuss an awareness campaign on the dangers of drug abuse under the Drug Prevention and Control Programme till 2020.
Thai police have seized more than 14 million methamphetamine pills worth 1.48 billion THB (45 million USD) that were bound for neighbouring Malaysia and beyond, authorities said on August 21.
