KUALA LUMPUR: Crying family members and friends of four men, sentenced to death for trafficking in more than 22kg of cannabis, rushed to hug them at the High Court yesterday. An 8-year-old daughter of one of them was seen hugging her mother and wept uncontrollably while one of the accused, a studen...
28/06/2012 | NEWS STRAITS TIMES/SUNDAY TIMESIn an immediate reaction, the celebrity, whose real name is Mohd Saifulazam Mohamed Yusoff, said he had faith in the judiciary and thanked his fans for their support. Saiful, 43, was charged in November last year, with three of his friends, for committing the offence at the Subang Jaya district pol...
26/06/2012 | NEWS STRAITS TIMES/SUNDAY TIMESJOHOR BARU: Police found syabu and Erimin worth RM18 million from the laboratory that was partially destroyed in a fire at the Pekan Nenas New Industrial Estate on Monday. Investigations also revealed that a major drug syndicate, with foreign links, was using the frozen food factory as a front for...
14/06/2012 | NEWS STRAITS TIMES/SUNDAY TIMESSHAH ALAM: An Iranian was sentenced to death by the High Court yesterday for trafficking in drugs. Judge Noor Azian Shaari sentenced Abbas Shirazi, 23, a factory worker, after finding him guilty of trafficking in 312.2g of methamphetamine at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport on June 15, 2010....
14/06/2012 | NEWS STRAITS TIMES/SUNDAY TIMESKUALA LUMPUR: A teenager who possessed Eramine 5 pills was nabbed at a traffic roadblock last night when his attempt to throw away the drugs 100-metre before the roadblock, caught the attention of the police. Kuala Lumpur Traffic Special Enforcement Unit chief ASP Azmi Wahid said the teenager, who...
14/06/2012 | NEWS STRAITS TIMES/SUNDAY TIMESBUKIT MERTAJAM: A personal aide of a Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) state executive councillor was yesterday charged in the magistrate`s court with taking drugs. Aidi Rafizul Idrus, who works for state Agriculture and Agro-Based Industry, Rural Development and Flood Mitigation Committee chairman Law C...
06/06/2012 | NEWS STRAITS TIMES/SUNDAY TIMES`VALUABLE CATCH`: Togo woman caught with 750g of syabu in her stomach at KLIA KUALA LUMPUR: BIANNUAL visits to Malaysia by tourists are normally welcomed but a Togo woman may never be allowed to leave here if she is convicted of drug trafficking. The 47-year-old woman, dubbed a `serial drug mule`...
05/06/2012 | NEWS STRAITS TIMES/SUNDAY TIMESSHAH ALAM -- The High Court here sentenced a Filipino maid to the gallows for trafficking 1126.9 grams of cocaine at the Puduraya Bus Terminal in Kuala Lumpur, three years ago. Judge Datuk Mohd Sofian Abdul Razak sentenced Eliza Sans Gabrier, 45, after the defence had failed to raise any reasonable...
28/05/2012 | NEWS STRAITS TIMES/SUNDAY TIMESTHE good news coming out of Myanmar these days is of reform and reconciliation as it moves from military dictatorship to fledgling democracy. But what is coming across Myanmar`s border into Thailand is a surge of illicit drugs. One of Myanmar`s biggest businesses -- heroin and methamphetamine manuf...
24/05/2012 | NEWS STRAITS TIMES/SUNDAY TIMESA team of officers from the federal police Narcotics Department raided a double-storey house there after several suspects, who were earlier arrested in another operation on Saturday, revealed its location to police. Department director Datuk Noor Rashid Ibrahim said yesterday police found 736,330 E...
19/05/2012 | NEWS STRAITS TIMES/SUNDAY TIMESALOR STAR: A Nigerian youth was yesterday sentenced to death by the High Court here after he was found guilty of trafficking in 18.8kg ganja two years ago. James Kamara, 23, remained calm when judicial commissioner Mohd Zaki Abdul Wahab meted out the sentence. According to the facts, Kamara was ar...
15/05/2012 | NEWS STRAITS TIMES/SUNDAY TIMESGEORGE TOWN: Police busted a mini drug lab here following a raid at a house in Air Itam here on Monday night. The raiding party also arrested the main suspect, a 50-year old man, and his girlfriend, a 20-year old local woman. Both were taken by surprise when the raiding party arrived at the house...
10/05/2012 | NEWS STRAITS TIMES/SUNDAY TIMESALOR SETAR -- The Kedah Customs and Excise Department thwarted an attempt by a Vietnamese woman to smuggle in syabu weighing 4.5kg valued at RM1.2 million at Bukit Kayu Hitam, near here, Saturday. Its director Datuk Abd Aziz Abdul Latif said the 43-year-old woman was detained by Customs after her b...
08/05/2012 | NEWS STRAITS TIMES/SUNDAY TIMESKUALA LUMPUR: THE National Anti-Drug Agency (AADK) plans to set up another 30 Cure & Care Service Centres for drug addicts this year because of its encouraging success rate. AADK director-general Puan Sri Zuraidah Mohamed said the programme had recorded an 80 per cent success rate since the first c...
07/05/2012 | NEWS STRAITS TIMES/SUNDAY TIMESACCESS TO EDUCATION: Ministry plans to build special school in the city for 500 kids who don`t receive proper education A SPECIAL school is being proposed for street and homeless kids in the city who have no access to proper education. Education Ministry`s educational planning and research divis...
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