The big fight against the sale of drugs and illicit substances on ecommerce platforms is being beefed up with a specific law in the pipeline.
21/04/2024 | THE STARStricter enforcement is needed to curb the menace of online drug dealing, say stakeholders.
21/04/2024 | THE STARPolice arrested 1,072 individuals, including four civil servants, for various drug offences in a 16-day integrated border operations in the state.
18/04/2024 | THE STARPresident Ferdinand Marcos Jr said police seized the largest haul of methamphetamine in the country in years without anybody being killed, in a subtle criticism of his predecessor’s notoriously deadly crackdown on illegal drugs.
17/04/2024 | THE STARPresident Ferdinand Marcos said he would not hand his predecessor Rodrigo Duterte to the International Criminal Court (ICC), which is investigating his deadly drug war.
16/04/2024 | THE STARFrench police have flooded the troubled Marseille district of La Castellane with forces since a crackdown on the drug trade started last month, and one mother told how she feels safer, for now at least.
15/04/2024 | THE STARThree ex-convicts were arrested the same day after robbing a convenience store while armed with meat cleavers in Inanam here.
15/04/2024 | THE STARGermany has become the biggest EU country to legalise recreational cannabis despite fierce objections from opposition politicians and medical associations.
02/04/2024 | THE STARA tour bus company manager and a cosmetic businessman have been implicated in a high-stakes drug smuggling operation, where they allegedly received RM30,000 each to smuggle syabu into the country.
31/03/2024 | THE STARA former university student has been sentenced to 30 years in jail and 12 strokes of the cane by the High Court here for trafficking nearly 2kg of cannabis four years ago
29/03/2024 | THE STARThe government will allocate RM230mil to the Health Ministry to upgrade drug- testing equipment in laboratories, says Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.
27/03/2024 | THE STARA drug syndicate’s ploy to store drugs at a house made to look like a childcare centre was thwarted when police raided the premises.
23/03/2024 | THE STARTwo volunteers at a private drug rehabilitation centre have been detained for allegedly assaulting a 38-year-old inmate.
22/03/2024 | THE STARA luxury condominium was among several locations raided in a police operation that led to the seizure of drugs worth more than RM14.5mil.
22/03/2024 | THE STARTwo friends have been arrested for trafficking methamphetamine worth RM2.57mil from out of a car.
18/03/2024 | THE STAR