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Zahid : Drug abuse among students worrying

Kuala Lumpur - Secondary school students are taking to synthetic drugs as a form of entertainment and this rising trend has raised alarm bells with the Education Ministry. Study carried out show that 1,457 tested positif for drugs said TPM at a press conference after chairing a Cabinet committee me...

26/10/2016 | MALAY MAIL

Malaysia won`t copy Philippines` deadly drug war, says DPM

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 25 — Malaysia will not adopt the Philippines’ strategy of encouraging vigilante action to combat the drug menace, Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said today. He explained that while Putrajaya was keen to reduce drug trafficking, it did not consider the measures...

25/10/2016 | MALAY MAIL

Cops cripple drug syndicate, seize RM7.7m ketamine

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 25 — Police have crippled a major drug distribution syndicate after they seized 102kg of ketamine worth RM7.7 million, believed to be the biggest ketamine bust in the Klang Valley this year. It was also the first time that a secret society — Gang 36 — had masterminded a major drug...

25/10/2016 | MALAY MAIL

Cops suspended for drinking ketum and gambling openly

Oct 14 — It had been a point of sale for ketum juice for some time now and was a “port” for regular customers — policemen who thought they were above the law. Investigators have learnt the ketum juice was sold at RM20 a bottle and the nine policemen in custody were frequent buyers. “They will be s...

14/10/2016 | MALAY MAIL

Family of five turns home into drug centre

Kuala Lumpur - Police have nabbed a family of five including two teenagers who are believed to have sold drugs from their home in Bandar Baru Ampang for about a year. The teenagers were school dropouts who had disciplinary issues. The family had repackaged syabu into 0.5g packets for RM100 each an...

13/10/2016 | MALAY MAIL

Cops nabbed for getting high on `ketum`, gambling

PETALING JAYA, Oct 13 — Eight policemen, including five on their crime beat, were rounded up for drinking ‘ketum’ and gambling at a food stall in an open-air car park in broad daylight yesterday. A source told Malay Mail the eight policemen, regulars at the food stall at Jalan PJS8/15 in Bandar S...

13/10/2016 | MALAY MAIL

Racism and the Malaysian drug war — Fifa Rahman

OCT 11 — There’s a fantastic documentary on Netflix called 13th which talks about the high levels of incarceration of black people in the US, and talks about Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan’s “War on Drugs” as a genocide decimating young coloured communities. In Malaysia, the “War on Drugs” isn’t...

11/10/2016 | MALAY MAIL

Man who killed mum tested positive for drugs

A 55-year-old man, who allegedly slashed his paralysed 74-year-old mother to death, has three criminal records, said state deputy police chief Datuk Hasnan Hassan. He said the suspect was placed under restricted residence in Selangor. “He only returned to Air Kuning a month ago,” Hasnan told rep...

30/09/2016 | MALAY MAIL

Man slashes paralysed mum to death

TAPAH, Sept 29 — A paralysed elderly woman is believed to have been brutally slashed to death by her son in Kampung Baru Air Kuning here on Tuesday evening. The 55-year-old man is believed to have been under the influence of drugs when he killed his mother, Low Lin Kew, 74. The man was arrested so...

29/09/2016 | MALAY MAIL

Ganja plants, arms seized from Datuk Seri`s bungalow

PETALING JAYA, Sept 26 — Police raided the bungalow of a Datuk Seri in Wangsa Maju where they arrested his son and seized ganja plants along with an array of weapons on Saturday evening. The cache of weapons included air pistols, samurai swords, several parang and brass knuckles. A replica police v...

26/09/2016 | MALAY MAIL

Philippines at UN tells world not to interfere

September 24, 2016. — Reuters picNEW YORK, Sept 25 — The Philippines' foreign secretary yesterday pushed back against criticism of President Rodrigo Duterte's drug war, telling the United Nations not to interfere. “We urge everyone to allow us to deal with out domestic challenges in order to ach...

25/09/2016 | MALAY MAIL

Nine nabbed for trafficking drugs worth RM3m in Selangor

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 7 — Three women were among nine suspects arrested on suspicion of being involved with a syndicate trafficking drugs worth RM3 million in five separate raids in Selangor from Friday until yesterday. The five raids were in Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA), Sepang, Kota D...

07/09/2016 | MALAY MAIL

IGP calls on Putrajaya to amend National Drug Policy

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 7 — 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 said the proposed amendment wa...

07/09/2016 | MALAY MAIL

Drug peddlers preparing for violence against cops

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 22 — In an all-out war against the drug menace over the last eight months, police seized 76 firearms and grenades, and arrested 128,008 people including nine kingpins and 5,420 foreigners. Of the firearms, 12 were from five drug syndicates deemed dangerous while others were from i...

22/08/2016 | MALAY MAIL

Philippines` Duterte threatens to quit UN after drugs war censure

MANILA, Aug 21 ― Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte railed against the United Nations today after it called for an end to the wave of killings unleashed by his war on drugs, saying he might leave the organisation and invite China and others to form a new one. Two UN human rights experts...

21/08/2016 | MALAY MAIL