Malay Mail
MANILA- Jailed drug user Bitoy Paras perks up when describing his support for Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's deadly war on narcotics, an unlikely fan of a campaign that has left Filipinos deeply conflicted.
Duterte's drug war – his signature initiative – helped bring him to power in mid-2...
15/10/2018 |
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IPOH - Perak police have detained a married couple, believed to be drug dealers, and seized several types of drugs weighing 5.6 kilogrammes at a house in Changkat Jering, Taiping on Wednesday.
In the raid, police seized 2,930 grams of heroin, cannabis weighing 2,105 grams and 550 grams of syabu e...
13/10/2018 |
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IPOH, — The 41-year-old trailer driver involved in an accident that killed five people, including a one-year-old, on the North-South Expressway yesterday has been found to have traces of narcotics in his urine.
Perak Traffic Investigation and Enforcement chief Superintendent Ahmad Adnan Basri sai...
08/10/2018 |
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MELAKA — Melaka police seized various drugs estimated to be worth at more than RM1.29 million in two separate cases in the Melaka Tengah and Alor Gajah districts here yesterday.
Melaka Narcotics CID seized a heroine base estimated to weigh 3,860g, eramin 5 (6,960 pills), caffeine (137,030g) and e...
04/10/2018 |
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LOMBOK - A Frenchman with nearly four kilogrammes (8.8 pounds) of drugs has been arrested by Indonesian police, authorities said Monday, in a country with some of the world's toughest narcotics sentences, including the death penalty.
Police said Felix Dorfin, 34, was carrying a false-bottomed sui...
02/10/2018 |
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KUALA LUMPUR — Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has agreed on the need to review charges against a marijuana distributor, who helped patients with chronic illnesess, facing the death penalty. Muhammad Lukman, 29, was charged with possessing, processing and distributing cannabis oil under Sect...
19/09/2018 |
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HOUAPHAN PROVINCE, Laos - Laos has for decades played a starring role in the "Golden Triangle" drug trade.
Its opium became a treasured export in the 1960s and 70s as heroin hit the streets of America and drug money became entwined in the United States' doomed anti-communist fight.
Laos was me...
10/09/2018 |
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GEORGETOWN - Police have made their biggest drug bust this year with the seizure of more than 500kg of syabu (methamphetamine) and ecstasy pills worth more than RM26.1 million.
24/08/2018 |
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KUCHING — Police detained a lecturer at a private university here yesterday morning and seized 2,240 grams of cannabis (ganja) worth RM22,300 from him.
The 36-year-old man was arrested shortly after he had collected a parcel at a courier service centre at Jalan Song here. The suspect who tested...
23/08/2018 |
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KUALA LUMPUR — The 32-year-old RapidKL bus driver who ploughed into seven cars in the city last Thursday night is facing a jail sentence of up to two years followed by compulsory police monitoring up to three years after his release from prison.
Md Khairol Anuar Mohamad pleaded guilty when charge...
22/08/2018 |
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SHAH ALAM - Police believe they have smashed a drug trafficking syndicate after arresting eight carriers, suspected to be 'mules' at klia2. The suspects were in possession of 13.52kg of syabu and the drug packages were strapped to different parts of the suspects' bodies and stashed inside their b...
21/08/2018 |
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Bangkok : A Malaysian drug dealer dubbed the “Iceman” was sentenced to death today by a court in Thailand after he was convicted of running a narcotics network that funnelled huge profits into legitimate businesses. Tun Hung Seong was arrested in April last year after a tipoff that he had hired a ma...
17/08/2018 |
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PORT KLANG — Commissioner Datuk Seri Zulkifli Abdullah said his transfer from the Federal Internal Security and Public Order Department to the National Anti-Drugs Agency will allow him improve his career.
Zulkifli added that he will officially step down as director of the department and become th...
16/08/2018 |
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SERDANG — He was said to be a loving father and his five-year-old son was the apple of his eye, but when dad came under the influence of narcotics, it drove him to do the unthinkable — killing his son with a parang.
15/08/2018 |
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HANOI - Around 200 drug users escaped from a rehab centre in Vietnam on Saturday, police said, the latest breakout attempt from the country's controversial treatment facilities.
Some addicts are forced by law to spend up to two years in Vietnam's rehab centres, while others are admitted by family...
13/08/2018 |
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