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Thai police seized more than 15 million methamphetamine pills and other illegal substances worth 300 million baht ($8.15 million) in what authorities said on Thursday was one of the largest drug ...
Fifteen suspected drug smugglers were killed and about 2 million methamphetamine tablets seized in northern Thailand near the Myanmar border after a shootout with Thai soldiers, Thai officials said.
Police in Thailand said Thursday they made one of the country’s biggest ever seizures of illicit drugs, a haul including methamphetamine, crystal meth and heroin, with a total estimated street ...
After leaving China, the river flows through the Golden Triangle area, where the borders of Myanmar, Thailand, and Laos meet. The region has long been plagued by lawlessness and is notorious for drug smuggling. [3] An owner of one of the hijacked ships stated that almost every Chinese boat in the area had been robbed by river gangs. [8]
The Golden Triangle is a large, mountainous region of approximately 200,000 km 2 (77,000 sq mi) [1] in northeastern Myanmar, northwestern Thailand and northern Laos, centered on the confluence of the Ruak and Mekong rivers.
Wei Hsueh-kang, [a] also known by various other names, is a Chinese-born fugitive wanted by the United States and Thailand for trafficking drugs in New York and Southeast Asia's Golden Triangle. After eluding the Thai authorities in 1988, he started several business ventures with the wealth he had accumulated from his crimes.
Myanmar is the largest producer of methamphetamine in the world, with the majority of ya ba found in Thailand being produced in Burma, particularly in the Golden Triangle and northeastern Shan State, which borders Thailand, Laos, and China. [11] In 2010, Burma trafficked 1 billion tablets to neighbouring Thailand. [11]
Singapore stands in relatively close proximity to the notorious Golden Triangle, the mountainous intersection of Thailand, Laos and civil war-torn Myanmar.