Southern Shan State, Myanmar – Tian Win Nang squats on the hard-packed earth, balancing a kilogramme (2.2 pounds) of chocolate-coloured raw opium in each hand like a human weighing scales.

Methamphetamine and synthetic drug trafficking are exploding across Southeast Asia, with record-breaking seizures exposing ...

Esther Yoo, Assistant Law Professor and Director of the Refugee & Immigration Law Clinic at the University of Hawaii ...

Southern Shan State, Myanmar – Tian Win Nang squats on the hard-packed earth, balancing a kilogramme (2.2 pounds) of chocolate-coloured raw opium in each hand like a human weighing scales.

The world is entering a new golden age of transnational crime, and Australia is on its path. While the United States sharpens ...

Nearly $300 million worth of confiscated illegal drugs were destroyed in Myanmar’s major cities on Thursday to mark the ...

MIAMI (AP) — A drug informant who helped the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration build some of its biggest cases has been arrested and charged with scheming to extort major cocaine ...

Myanmar has a desperate past. After a coup in 1962, it suffered 49 years of military rule. Between 2011 and 2021, the army relinquished some power, and for a while that allowed Aung San Suu Kyi, a ...

MIAMI (AP) — A drug informant who helped the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration build some of its biggest cases has been arrested and charged with scheming to extort major cocaine ...

Ronald Serio, the drug trafficker who said he paid at least $250,000 in bribes to Drug Enforcement Administration Agent Joseph Bongiovanni between 2010 and 2017, was sentenced Friday to two ...

Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Myanmar's junta chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, who ousted the elected government in a coup on February 1, presides at an army parade on Armed Forces Day in Naypyitaw ...

Six-year-old girl among 16 arrested by Myanmar junta for top general’s assassination. ... a shadow government which was formed after the coup by the members of the ousted Suu Kyi administration.