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

“In the early 1980s, the United States Drug Enforcement Administration estimated that 70 percent of the heroin consumed in the US came from his organization ,” Kelvin Rowley, a lecturer at ...

A devastating 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck near Mandalay, Myanmar, sending violent tremors across Southeast Asia and triggering widespread destruction in multiple countries. The U.S. Geological ...

Since Myanmar was plunged into civil war by a military coup in 2021, millions more have been displaced. Many fled to Thailand. Thailand's Foreign Workers Administration Office says the number of ...

The details are unclear, but it appears that, in a sting operation dating from 2020, undercover agents from the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) were able to persuade a Japanese yakuza gang ...

An alleged leader in Japan’s Yakuza pleaded guilty on Wednesday to charges of attempting to traffic nuclear material sourced from war-ravaged Myanmar with the understanding that Iran would use ...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) released a statement on Wednesday announcing that Takeshi Ebisawa, allegedly a prominent figure in Japan’s Yakuza crime syndicate, has pleaded guilty to conspiring ...

Court papers said Ebisawa — who U.S. prosecutors say is a leader of Japan's notorious Yakuza mafia — told the DEA's confidential source in 2020 that he had access to a large quantity of ...

He now faces decades in prison. During an investigation, Ebisawa unwittingly introduced an undercover US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent, referred to by the US Department of Justice as ...

During an undercover investigation by the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in 2021, Takeshi Ebisawa tried to sell the materials – including uranium and weapons-grade plutonium – to ...