Thai soldiers seized six million methamphetamine pills and 141 pounds (64 kilogrammes) of crystal meth in a deadly clash with smugglers near the Thai-Myanmar border. The soldiers were on patrol when ...

Methamphetamine seizures across East Asia surged to 236 tons last year, a 24% jump from 2023, with the bulk of the ...

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

Myanmar authorities incinerated illegal drugs valued at USD 300 million to combat rampant trafficking. The destruction ...

Officials in Myanmar have destroyed nearly $300 million worth of illegal drugs with massive drug-burning ceremonies taking ...

The drug burnings came nearly a month after U.N. experts warned of unprecedented levels of methamphetamine production and trafficking from Southeast Asia’s Golden Triangle region and Myanmar’s eastern ...

Golden Triangle Methamphetamine Trafficking Continues to Surge, UN Says Asian governments seized a record 236 tons of the drug in 2024, the vast majority of it in mainland Southeast Asia.

The UNODC’s Inshik Sim, the lead analyst for Southeast Asia and the Pacific, said countries neighbouring Myanmar are becoming key trafficking routes for drugs produced in the Golden Triangle.

Methamphetamine seizures, primarily in Southeast Asia, totaled 236 tons in 2024, a 24% increase over 2023.

In early January 2025, the disappearances of Chinese model Yang Zeqi and actor Wang Xing, orchestrated by a human trafficking ring in Myanmar, provoked public backlash in China. These controversies ...

International law enforcement authorities caught the accused co-ringleader of an investment scamming group that not only defrauded Koreans out of tens of billions of won but also kidnapped people ...

BOKEO PROVINCE, Laos -- A historic discovery of Buddha statues and other valuable artifacts in Laos has sent tourists from near and far to a small village in Southeast Asia's Golden Triangle, with ...