London - Engilish Premier League footballers were among 150 sports stars prescribed banned performance-enhancing drugs a British doctor has claimed in an expose by the Sunday Times. The weekly shich has been at the heart of several doping exposes involving international athletics over the last 12 m...
04/04/2016 | MALAY MAILPetaling Jaya - Police crippled two African drug syndicates smuggling RM2.14 million worth of syabu concealed in laptop adapters and water filters during raids in Kuala Lumpur and Selangaor. The syndicates believed have been active for the past six months transported the packages here via sea cargo...
30/03/2016 | MALAY MAILThe Neddle syringe exchange programme was one of the harm reduction efforts carried out as a collaborative effort between the government and other NGOs. Another haram reduction effort involving the replacement of opiates such as heroin and morphine with methadone maintenance treatment. Currently a...
30/03/2016 | MALAY MAILPETALING JAYA, March 25 — Malaysia needs to re-look its policies when it comes to minor drug offences as the current set up is doing more harm than good. “What we need is to focus law enforcement on major trafficking syndicates,” said Universiti Malaya faculty of medicine dean Prof Dr Adeeba Kama...
25/03/2016 | MALAY MAILBANGKOK, March 24 ― A gang of 15 Malaysians has been arrested in Thailand for trying to smuggle millions of dollars worth of heroin and methamphetamine by train, police said today. Investigators said the group was moving drugs from northern Thailand to the Malaysian town of Butterworth....
24/03/2016 | MALAY MAILKuala Lumpur - Two African drug syndicates smuggling syabu from China via a courier service were busted by police after a tip off from the China National Narcotics Control Commission. Bukit Aman arrested three African nationals and seized RM1 million worth of syabu packed into laptop adapters and i...
22/03/2016 | MALAY MAILKuala Lumpur - Police made the nation`s biggest haul worth RM4.2 million in two separate raids in Subang and Sungai Petani over the weekend. Police are working on the theory that the suspect was involved with a large network involving suppliers and distributors in Thailand and here.
16/03/2016 | MALAY MAILKOTA BARU, March 15 — The Home Ministry (KDN) will launch a massive operation to combat drug abuse and addiction in Kelantan this year, according to its deputy minister Masir Kujat. He said psychotropic pills recorded the highest usage among drug addicts in the state, at almost 80 per cent, compa...
15/03/2016 | MALAY MAILGeorge Town - Penang police have crippled a local drug syndicate exporting ketum powder via air to customers in the United States, Ukraine, Canada and Indonesia. Police said this was the largest haul of processed ketum in the state from a syndicate believed to have been operating for the past six y...
11/03/2016 | MALAY MAILLos Angeles - Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova said she had failed a drug test at the Australian Open due to a substance she was taking for health issues, leading longtime sponsor Nike to announce it was suspending ties during the investigation. She is the seventh athlete in a month to test posi...
09/03/2016 | MALAY MAILIt is time for us to get really serious and work together to fight our number one enemy so thet we can arrest the growing number of drug addicts and lower the number of drug-related offences. The government has spent millions of ringgit to tackle the drug menace in the country but the problem is fa...
02/03/2016 | MALAY MAILLAWAS (Sarawak), Feb 28 — Although several European countries do not ban ganja or marijuana like in Malaysia, they have not been able to resolve the problem of drug abuse or addiction effectively. Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said personally, he did not agree for the pol...
28/02/2016 | MALAY MAILKUALA LUMPUR, Feb 23 — A 30-year-old inspector and a constable from the Bukit Aman Special Branch have been detained for using drugs. Both tested positive for syabu. Bukit Aman Special Branch director Datuk Seri Mohamad Fuzi Harun, who confirmed the arrests, told Malay Mail both men were arreste...
23/02/2016 | MALAY MAILSepang - A South African woman's attempt to smuggle cocaine in boxes of chocolated was foiled when KLIA Customs officers discovered the drugs while scanning her luggage. The 28 year old woman who was on her first visit to Malaysia tried to evade attention by walking among other couples who were al...
18/02/2016 | MALAY MAILKUALA LUMPUR, Feb 18 — Over half of Malaysians surveyed in an online poll want the government to scrap the mandatory death sentence that leaves judges with no discretion to hand down lighter punishments. Conducted by Barisan Nasional (BN) component party Gerakan, the online poll results showed 8...
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