A drug addict high on drugs allegedly murdered his own mother at Jade Tower, Taman Bukit Indah today. Ampang district police chief ACP Hamzah Alias said the 23-year-old suspect also ran amok and went to the Bukit Indah police station and tried to attack policemen with a short dagger at about 3.50am...
04/10/2016 | THE SUNPhilippine President Rodrigo Duterte has apologised to the Jews "profoundly and deeply' for his remarks about Adolf Hitler in relation to his war on drugs. Duterte said on Friday that he was willing to kill three million drug addicts and pushers and compared himself with Hitler, sparking outrage fro...
04/10/2016 | THE SUNNILAI: The Royal Malaysian Police have recommended to the government that the National Drug Policy be amended by adding an element of drug trafficking in the holistic battle against dangerous drugs. Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar (pix) said the proposed amendment was also ai...
07/09/2016 | THE SUNKUALA LUMPUR: Cooperation between Malaysian police and the Taiwan Bureau of Justice Investigation led to an international drug syndicate being busted about 10pm last Friday with the arrest of six people, including three Taiwanese men, in Bukit Bintang and 42.5kg of crystalised Syabu worth RM3 millio...
21/08/2016 | THE SUNKANGAR: An entrepreneur who runs a business exporting ketum leaves claims the products based on the plant are extensively used as alternative medicine in the United States (US) and Europe for over 10 years. Ooi Teik Lee, 53, also claimed US-based pharmaceutical companies had patented products mad...
15/08/2016 | THE SUNKUALA LUMPUR: Drug syndicates here have resorted to multi-level marketing (MLM) to promote their product particularly among school and college students. National Anti-Drug Agency, Kuala Lumpur director Tengku Hanizar Tengku Awang said various types of drugs could be obtained through group What...
11/08/2016 | THE SUNPETALING JAYA: Seven more students were arrested by police in Subang Jaya for drug pushing as a task to snuff out narcotics-related crimes in the township intensifies. The clean-up operation undertaken by a special task force of the Subang Jaya police narcotics crimes investigations department (N...
10/08/2016 | THE SUNKUALA LUMPUR: The government has decided that ketum cannot be planted on a commercial basis, said Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi. Ahmad Zahid said he had instructed the Rural and Regional Development Ministry to inform the Rubber Industries Smallholders Development Authority...
04/08/2016 | THE SUNSHAH ALAM: An Indian businessman was sentenced to death by the High Court here today after it found him guilty of trafficking in 3993.7g of Ketamine at the KL International Airport (KLIA), Sepang four years ago. Judge Datuk Ghazali Cha ordered the sentence after finding that the 57-year-old Moha...
27/07/2016 | THE SUNJOHOR BARU: Police have seized drugs worth RM1.048 million and detained two male suspects in Tampoi and Majidee on Tuesday. Johor Baru Selatan (JBS) district police chief Assistant Commissioner Sulaiman Salleh said in a press conference here on Wednesday. He said police detained the first susp...
27/07/2016 | THE SUNPETALING JAYA: It is not a crime for a government to 'force' drug addicts to enter rehabilitation centres if the current voluntarily process is not effective in reducing the number of addicts, says Kelantan mufti Datuk Mohamad Shukri Mohamad. Utusan Malaysia reported today that the proposal to ma...
18/07/2016 | THE SUNCHICAGO: The Obama administration on Tuesday emphasised the need for funding to treat opioid and heroin addiction, releasing new statistics showing explosive growth in overdose deaths. From 2010 to 2014, the number of heroin overdose deaths in the United States more than tripled, while deaths fr...
29/06/2016 | THE SUNKUANTAN: A Form Two student was among twelve men detained by the police, who was believed to plan to buy ketum water supply during a raid on a house in Felda Mempaga 3, Bentong on Wednesday. Bentong district police chief Supt Mohamad Mansor Mohd Nor said in the 10pm incident, all of them, aged b...
17/06/2016 | THE SUNKUALA LUMPUR: Unscrupulous foreign chemists out to earn big bucks are aiding drug syndicates in setting up laboratories for the mass production of synthetic drugs such as syabu. Dubbed the "roaming chemists", anti-narcotics police have to date arrested 31 such individuals here since 2011. More...
17/06/2016 | THE SUNKUALA LUMPUR: The Education Ministry should take the currently deteriorating drug abuse situation among school students to the Cabinet for immediate action. Malaysian Crime Prevention Foundation (MCPF) vice-chairman Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye said while the problem was not new, it nevertheless needed s...
12/06/2016 | THE SUN