SYDNEY, March 25 — Crystal methamphetamine is the greatest drug threat to Australians, with usage spreading across the nation despite unprecedented seizures of the substance by authorities, Justice Minister Michael Keenan said today. Keenan, who was releasing an Australian Crime Commission report...
25/03/2015 | MALAY MAILJOHOR BARU - About 16,000 Johor civil servants will soon have to undergo mandatory urine tests to check drug abuse, said state health and environment executive councillor Datuk Ayub Rahmat. Drug abuse among (state) civil servants does exist but the figures are not alarming. Menteri Besar Datuk Ser...
10/03/2015 | MALAY MAILMarch 6 — Emerging drug abuse trends among the young, particularly those that see youths ordering drugs online and experimenting with narcotic substances while travelling overseas, are being closely watched by the Government, said Senior Minister of State (Home Affairs and Foreign Affairs) Masagos...
06/03/2015 | MALAY MAILKUALA LUMPUR, March 5 — The biggest obstacles to reduce drug dependency in Malaysia are the criminalising of users and the lack of support services to prevent relapse, a researcher said today. Malaysian Aids Council (MAC) policy manager Fifa Rahman said drug addiction is a medical condition and s...
05/03/2015 | MALAY MAILMarch 4 — To say Malaysia failed to tackle drug abuse — declared the nation’s No 1 enemy 30 years ago — is unjust and prejudiced, says Federal Narcotics Crime Investigation Department acting director Deputy Comm Datuk Haris Wong Abdullah. Malaysian Drug Prevention Association (Pemadam) president Da...
04/03/2015 | MALAY MAILMarch 3 — More than 30 years after drugs were declared the nation`s No 1 enemy, authorities were losing the battle against the illicit substance abuse, especially among schoolchildren, said Malaysian Drug Prevention Association (Pemadam) president Datuk Mohd Johari Baharum. `We have failed. Former...
03/03/2015 | MALAY MAILPETALING JAYA, March 3 — They were seven-year-olds shouting and playing. They didn`t care about time. They were special, taking a different path through life until they were exposed to drugs. Today, the boys from Sabah, aged eight and nine, are recovering from their shameful tag as Malaysia’s youn...
03/03/2015 | MALAY MAILFeb 25 — Smoking, growing and owning small amounts of marijuana became legal in Alaska yesterday as a growing decriminalisation movement reached the United States’ northwest frontier. Alaska, which narrowly passed the measure in November, followed Colorado and Washington among states allowing recre...
25/02/2015 | MALAY MAILJAKARTA, Feb 24 — An Indonesian court today dismissed a bid by two Australian drug traffickers on death row to avoid execution by challenging the president's rejection of their pleas for clemency. Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan, the ringleaders of the so-called "Bali Nine" drug smuggling gang, we...
24/02/2015 | MALAY MAILKUALA LUMPUR, Feb 17 — Police arrested four men for allegedly being involved with drug trafficking syndicates, following two operations conducted in the federal capital on February 11 and 13. During the operations, police also seized various types of drugs worth more than RM410,000....
17/02/2015 | MALAY MAILJAKARTA, Jan 7 — Indonesian authorities said today a major Hong Kong drug lord had been arrested and more than 860 kilogrammes of crystal methamphetamine seized, following a three-year investigation into a global syndicate. Three other Hong Kong residents, as well as a Malaysian and four Indonesian...
07/01/2015 | MALAY MAILState Customs director Datuk Janathan Kandok said the drugs were found in four big envelopes, hidden between clothes in a baggage at 3.30am, on Oct 31. `A man, 32, on transit to Kuala Lumpur was nabbed upon his arrival from Guangzhou, China,` he told a media conference at Wisma Customs here, today....
05/11/2014 | MALAY MAILBukit Aman Narcotics Criminal Investigation Department director Datuk Seri Noor Rashid Ibrahim said two local men and a Singaporean were detained during raids carried out by the Special Tactical Intelligence Narcotics Group (STING) and the Johor Narcotics CID department with the cooperation of the C...
05/11/2014 | MALAY MAILKUALA LUMPUR, Oct 31 — Pos Malaysia has been hit with another allegation of dropping off illegal items, this time in the form of ketum leaves. On Wednesday, Wangsa Maju district police arrested a couple, aged 26 and 44, who had been running a ketum water processing syndicate while couriering the le...
31/10/2014 | MALAY MAILKUANTAN, Oct 24 — Two women, including a policewoman, were arrested for possession of drugs and 10 bullets in a house at the Karak Agriculture Department quarters, near Bentong, yesterday. A police team from the Karak station which conducted the raid at 1.21pm, seized 0.38 type bullets a...
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