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Technological Shift Among Southeast Asian Organized Crime Groups 'Revolutionized' Crypto Laundering: UN

Organized crime groups in Southeast Asia, particularly those in the Mekong area, have adapted to the technological era, allowing for the proliferation of underground banking and crypto laundering.

International Business Times

Thai police seize a record haul of 50 million methamphetamine tablets near border with Myanmar

Thai police have seized what is being called a record haul of methamphetamine tablets in the western province of Kanchanaburi, close to the Myanmar border

The Independent UK

War-wracked Myanmar is now the world's top opium producer, surpassing Afghanistan, says UN agency

Myanmar, already wracked by a brutal civil war, has regained the unenviable title of world’s biggest opium producer

The Independent UK

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‘Cheaper than beer’: Laos meth prices plummet as Myanmar chaos fuels trade

Front-line workers say methamphetamine pills are being sold for as little as $0.25 each.

Al Jazeera

‘A real opportunity’: how ChatGPT could help college applicants

With the end of affirmative action, generative AI could ‘democratize’ admissions by giving students who don’t have tutors or counselors a leg up

The Guardian - US

UN says organised crime shifting drugs routes in Southeast Asia

The UN Office on Drugs and Crime says almost 151 tonnes of methamphetamine seized in Southeast, East Asia in 2022.

Al Jazeera

‘Tip of the spear’: Battling the Golden Triangle’s drug lords

A low-intensity but bloody battle is being fought to contain the flow of drugs from Southeast Asia’s ‘Golden Triangle’.

Al Jazeera

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Q&A: The opium surge in Southeast Asia’s ‘Golden Triangle’

The revival of opium production in the Golden Triangle comes on top of a booming synthetic drug industry.

Al Jazeera

Opium farming surges in Myanmar since the military coup, the U.N. says

The production of opium in Myanmar has flourished since the military's seizure of power as the faltering economy has led more people toward the drug trade, according to a new United Nations report.

WEKU

Myanmar opium farming booming after coup: UN

Bangkok (AFP) - Opium poppy production in Myanmar ramped up dramatically following the 2021 military coup, the UN's drugs office said Thursday, as political and economic turmoil drove farmers to cultivate the crop.

AFP

Report: Myanmar opium cultivation surges 33% amid violence

The United Nations says the production of opium in Myanmar has flourished since the military’s seizure of power

The Independent UK

Opium cultivation surges since Myanmar military seized power: UN

Opium poppy was cultivated on more than 40,000 hectares in Myanmar last year, a 33 percent increase compared with 2021.

Al Jazeera

Inside the 'living hell' of Cambodia's scam operations

Sihanoukville (Cambodia) (AFP) - Trafficked, beaten and locked up far from his family in China, Lu was one of thousands of people in Cambodia forced to operate online scams to line their captors' pockets.

AFP

Laos makes huge drug haul

Police in Laos have made their third-biggest single seizure of illegal drugs by netting 33 million methamphetamine pills, a United Nations official said on Saturday.

Bangkok Post

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Thailand takes step towards legalising cannabis

Bangkok (AFP) - Thailand relaxed its cannabis laws Thursday, with users permitted to possess and grow the plant -- albeit under complicated new guidelines.

AFP

Thai cops seize meth hidden in replica Easter Island statue

Bangkok (AFP) - Thai authorities have seized 200 kilograms of crystal meth hidden inside a replica Easter Island statue awaiting shipment to Taiwan, police said Thursday.

WEKU

1 billion pills: The number of seized drugs reaches ominous record in Asia

A U.N. official calls for new policies across East Asia to halt the soaring production of methamphetamines.

Reuters

Asia's synthetic drug trade booms, with record meth seizures

Trafficking of synthetic drugs in East and Southeast Asia continued to expand last year, with more than one billion methamphetamine tablets seized by authorities, the United Nations said on Monday.

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The Independent UK

1B meth pills: East, SE Asia drug industry hits ominous peak

The number of methamphetamine tablets seized in East and Southeast Asia exceeded a billion last year, highlighting the scale of illegal drug production and trafficking in the region

The Independent UK

Laos makes big meth bust as UN warns of security breakdown

Police in the Southeast Asian nation of Laos have made their second huge seizure in three months of methamphetamine

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