Manila - The majority of Filipinos believe the Philippine government should allow international groups, such as the United Nations, to investigate thousands of killings under a crackdown against illegal drugs, a nation wide survey showed. The survey found that 60% of Filipinos agreed with the statem...
24/07/2019 | THE STARDENPASAR: Two Australian clubbers arrested in Bali for cocaine possession were paraded in front of local media Tuesday as they faced a possible 12-year jail term, police said. William Cabantog, 36, and David Van Iersel, 38, were nabbed Friday night at a nightclub in Canggu, a popular tourist hotspot...
24/07/2019 | THE STARSydney - Australian authorities have uncovered a US$140mil (RM575.5mil) stash of amphetamines after an alleged criminal's run-in with the law saw his drug filled van crash into an officer's car outside a police station. Security camera footage released yesterday showed a white van ploughing into the...
24/07/2019 | THE STARMANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte vowed to double-down on his war on drugs and corruption as he enters the midpoint of his six-year term. Duterte asked Congress to reimpose the death penalty and further cut red tape in his ongoing State of the Nation Address yesterday, which he delivered...
23/07/2019 | THE STARMANILA: President Rodrigo Duterte will likely avoid a lame-duck phase in the second half of his term, leveraging high approval ratings and a super-majority in Congress to seal his policy agenda. Bills to overhaul the Philippine constitution, strengthen the drug war, and make the economy more competi...
22/07/2019 | THE STARTHE area under the Jalan Kem Expressway Bridge, a stone’s throw from the Port Klang Authority (LKP) building, has been turned into an illegal dumpsite. To make matters worse, a group of drug addicts, in the pretence of managing the site, are collecting a fee from those who dump construction waste th...
20/07/2019 | THE STARIN mid-2018, a diverse group of stakeholders urged the government to provide life-saving drug therapy for Malaysians devastated by a genetic disorder known as spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). Close to 50 other countries provide a drug therapy using nusinersen (marketed as Spinraza), and many will soon...
19/07/2019 | THE STARKUALA LUMPUR: A total of 95,045 people were detained from Jan 1 to July 4 this year for drug-related offences that came with a total seizure worth RM250.66mil. Bukit Aman Narcotics Criminal Investigation Department (NCID) acting director Datuk Kamarulzaman Mamat said 35,706 people had drugs in thei...
17/07/2019 | THE STARBANGKOK: Police in Thailand said they have seized more than a tonne of crystal meth and over 10 million methamphetamine tablets in a series of drug raids this month, amid increased production and use of the drugs in Southeast Asia. Thai authorities often make several large seizures a year of methamp...
17/07/2019 | THE STARNEW YORK: After a dramatic decades-long run as one of the world's most notorious druglords, there is little suspense about what will happen in a New York courtroom on Wednesday (Jul 17): Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is expected to be sentenced to life in prison. The hearing is more or less a formality:...
17/07/2019 | THE STARKuala Lumpur : A tip-off led to the seizure of 23kg of syabu worth RM1.17mil and the arrest of a 34-year-old suspected trafficker at an apartment in Sungai Besi. Kuala Lumpur police chief Comm Datuk Seri Mazlan Lazim said police arrested the suspect in front of the apartment on July 11, before reco...
16/07/2019 | THE STARTHE proposal to decriminalise drug addiction and possession for personal use is still under discussion, says Deputy Home Minister Datuk Mohd Azis Jamman (pic). He said the issue had been highlighted since 2017 based on feedback from non-governmental organisations. At the same time, efforts are bei...
16/07/2019 | THE STARPetaling Jaya : A group of retired senior police officers want the government to only abolish provisions of law stipulating mandatory death sentence. Retired Senior Police Officers Association of Malaysia (Respa) president Tan Sri Ismail Che Rus said the death sentence could however be retained to...
15/07/2019 | THE STARMANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte took a swipe at Iceland on Friday for spearheading a U.N. resolution to investigate his bloody war on drugs, saying it was a nation made entirely of ice, with no understanding of his country's problems. "What is the problem of Iceland? - Ice on...
14/07/2019 | THE STARGENEVA: The UN Human Rights Council voted to set up an investigation into mass killings during Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s so-called “war on drugs”, a step that activists said was long overdue. Duterte’s government says police have killed about 6,600 people in shootouts with suspected dru...
13/07/2019 | THE STAR