Nov 4 — Three of the 16 members of a syndicate detained last Sunday in connection with the seizure of processed ecstasy pills worth RM28 million, were believed to have shared their expertise on drug making while serving time in prison. Bukit Aman Narcotics CID deputy director Datuk Haris Wong Abd...
04/11/2015 | MALAY MAILOct 23 — Police have crippled a syndicate selling drug-laced soft drinks at entertainment outlets in the city. The activity was uncovered after five people, including two women, were arrested in multiple raids by police and the Special Tactical Intelligence Narcotic Group on Tuesday night. Buk...
23/10/2015 | MALAY MAILKUALA LUMPUR, Oct 20 — Penang is favoured by international drug trafficking syndicates as a drug processing hub for markets in the region, said Deputy Home Minister Datuk Nur Jazlan Mohamed. He said this was based on the increasing value of seizures, the number of arrests and raids made by the au...
20/10/2015 | MALAY MAILKOTA BARU, Oct 13 — Abdullah Jaafar has, for the past few months, been getting back on his feet again after being discharged from hospital. The 45-year-old recovering injecting drug user (IDU) is also taking the brave step in coming out as HIV-positive for one reason. He wants to be reunited w...
13/10/2015 | MALAY MAILPETALING JAYA, Oct 12 — Now in its 10th year in Malaysia, the harm reduction programme has sought to lower HIV infections and there has been some measure of success. The number of injecting drug users (IDUs) being infected with the virus has dropped over the years, bringing the number of new HIV in...
12/10/2015 | MALAY MAILTANAH MERAH, Oct 12 — Ee (not his real name) is a boatman who plies his trade along Sungai Golok, Kelantan. The 35-year-old is Thai and lives on the opposite side of the river in the Narathiwat province. Sometimes, business is good and he earns enough to see him through. There are also the...
12/10/2015 | MALAY MAILOCTOBER 5 — Women in Brazil are highly visible in drug activities that for long considered male domain. This not only changing characteristics of the business itself, but also socio-cultural landscape of Brazilian society. The causes of the drug problem are diverse, so is the impact. Without a mu...
05/10/2015 | MALAY MAILOKLAHOMA CITY, Oct 1 — Oklahoma’s governor granted a last-minute stay of execution yesterday to an inmate convicted of hiring a hit man, saying the state needed time to determine if one of three drugs it planned to use complies with its court-approved procedures. Lawyers for Richard Glossip, 52...
01/10/2015 | MALAY MAILKUALA LUMPUR, Sept 15 — Police arrested a local and a South African, and seized 22kg of syabu worth RM5 million in six raids in Subang and Sepang since September 8. Bukit Aman director of Narcotics Criminal Investigation Department, Datuk Noor Rashid said the South African man, 4...
16/09/2015 | MALAY MAILDENPASAR, June 11 — Indonesian prosecutors today recommended an 18-year jail sentence for a New Zealand man accused of trafficking crystal methamphetamine into the resort island of Bali. Antony de Malmanche was detained with 1.7 kilograms (3.7 pounds) of the drug hidden inside his backpack upon l...
11/06/2015 | MALAY MAILKUALA LUMPUR, June 11 — Putrajaya should take a leaf from Singapore and review Malaysia’s mandatory death sentence for drug-related offences, Minister Datuk Paul Low said today, He argued that the current practice is an “unfair” penalty for drug mules who were caught and hanged while the vice “ki...
11/06/2015 | MALAY MAILKUALA LUMPUR, June 6 — An events company that organised a concert where six people died is calling for authorities to relook how they have been tackling the drug problem in Malaysia. The Livescape Group, which organised the Future Music Festival Asia (FMFA) in 2013 and 2014, suggested that Pemand...
06/06/2015 | MALAY MAILMAY 2 — After the final 12 shots were fired, after the last of the death row inmates were executed by a firing squad, after their bodies are either buried or repatriated back to their countries of origin, the Central Java town of Cilacap, once teeming with relatives, diplomats, security officials an...
02/05/2015 | MALAY MAILSINGAPORE, April 20 — Two convicted drug traffickers were spared the gallows today (April 20), four years after being sentenced to death. Cheong Chun Yin, 31, and Pang Siew Fum, 60, both Malaysians, were sentenced to life imprisonment for trafficking 2.7kg of heroin to Singapore on June 16, 2008...
20/04/2015 | MALAY MAILSAO PAULO, April 19 — Former Brazil international Paulo Cesar has admitted he sold his World Cup winners medal from 1970 to buy cocaine. `I wasn`t in control emotionally. I should never have negotiated and sold such a precious medal,` he told Globonews television station. `It’s a huge loss. I`ve...
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