Shah Alam : Family-friendly karaoke joints have been identified as new haunts for drug dealers looking to offload their supply to addicts here. Selangor police discovered this new tactic after raiding one such outlet at Batu Tiga in Klang recently and arrested two guest relations officers and a cust...
22/08/2019 | THE STARAlor Setar - It is a predicament that no mother will want to be in – see her only son drop out of school and become a drug addict at 13. Sadly, this is the situation faced by odd job worker Nor (not her full name) who is praying fervently that her son Atan will turn over a new leaf. The teenager, a...
21/08/2019 | THE STARBeijing - Progress has been made by 109 Chinese cities in spearheading the country’s anti-drug war, said China National Narcotics Control Commission. In January 2018,109 cities nationwide, including the city of Zhongshan in Guangdong Province and the city of Kunming in Yunnan Province, were designat...
21/08/2019 | THE STARPetaling Jaya - The police and the Customs Department made the country’s biggest drug bust and arrested 13 suspects, including nine foreigners, in two separate raids in Shah Alam. The raiding party seized 500kg of ketamin and over 3.23 tonnes of cocaine worth over half a billion ringgit in the opera...
20/08/2019 | THE STARSydney: Four British men were arrested in Australia and New Zealand in an international drugs sting that netted a record haul of potent MDMA, Australian police said yesterday. Authorities seized 766kg of the “highest purity” MDMA recorded in Queensland state, with a conservative street value of US$6...
15/08/2019 | THE STARYangon - An Australian journalist who was a pioneering publisher in South-East Asia was sentenced to 13 years in a Myanmar prison for drug possession. Ross Dunkley (pic) was arrested when police raided his home in Yangon in June last year. His British business partner, John McKenzie, was also arrest...
09/08/2019 | THE STARGenting Highlands - In only a week, Bukit Aman has seized RM3.48mil worth of drugs and detained 8,799 suspects. Bukit Aman Narcotics Crime Investigation Department (NCID) director Comm Datuk Mohd Khalil Kader Mohd said the drugs were seized and suspects caught in a special nationwide operation code...
07/08/2019 | THE STARGeorge Town - Police have seized an assortment of drugs worth RM1.14mil in one of the biggest drug busts in the state this year. They also detained a 54-year-old man at a double-storey house in Bukit Tengah, Bukit Mertajam, where the drugs – 15,300g of syabu, 12,650 ecstasy pills and 78.6g of heroin...
06/08/2019 | THE STARPetaling Jaya - Bukit Aman is in the midst of “flushing out” police personnel embroiled in drug abuse and drug-related offences, says Comm Datuk Mohd Khalil Kader Mohd. The Narcotics Crime Investigation Department (NCID) director said inspections and urine tests are being conducted at the federal he...
05/08/2019 | THE STARYangon - Raids on jungle drug labs have been met with heavy artillery fire, Myanmar narcotics police said Thursday, in an area riddled with armed groups accused of pumping out much of the world's methamphetamine. Myanmar is under increasingly intense pressure from its neighbours to close down the me...
02/08/2019 | THE STARSingapore - Drug trafficking into Singapore, which has some of the world's toughest drugs laws, has risen recently, the law minister said, and he defended capital punishment for serious drug crime as reflecting public support.
02/08/2019 | THE STARKelantan Narcotics Crime Investigation Department Chief Asst Comm Mit Emong and his officers showing the results of Operation Ice Breaker - seizure of drugs worth more than RM100,000 - at the state police contingent headquarters in Kota Bharu. ACP Mit Emong said 239 people were arrested, including 2...
01/08/2019 | THE STARDenpasar - An alleged British fugitive was arrested in Bali with pornography and drugs, Indonesian authorities said, after British media reported that the man was selling explicit videos of himself online to fund an extravagant lifestyle on the island. Immigration official Amran Aris said that based...
01/08/2019 | THE STARKuala Lumpur - Every week, there are police personnel caught for drug abuse, says Datuk Seri Abdul Hamid Bador. The Inspector-General of Police said that since January this year, no fewer than 30 policemen of various ranks had been arrested for such offences. “We discovered and arrested our own per...
30/07/2019 | THE STARSemenyih - In its quest to put a bigger dent in drug networks in the country, Bukit Aman has set its sights on drug kingpins here. The Narcotic Crime Investigation Department (NCID) launched a nationwide operation dubbed Ice Breaker to identify and capture drug kingpins and their syndicate members h...
30/07/2019 | THE STAR