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VIENNA-Opium poppy production in Afghanistan, long the world's dominant supplier of the raw material for heroin, has risen by a fifth in the second full year since the Taliban banned it but remains a fraction of pre-ban levels, a U.N. report said on Wednesday. The Taliban's supreme spiritual leader banned the cultivation of narcotics in April 2022.... That prompted opium farming in the country to plummet an estimated 95% in 2023, according to an annual survey by the United Nations Office on Dru

Join our Whatsapp channel Asian crime networks running multi-billion-dollar cyber scam centres are expanding their operations across the world as they seek new victims and new ways to launder money, the UN said on Monday. Chinese and Southeast Asian gangs are raking in tens of billions of dollars a year targeting victims through investment, cryptocurrency, romance and other scams — using an army of workers often trafficked and forced to toil in squalid compounds. The activity has largely been fo

SINGAPORE( REUTERS)-After a drastic reduction in wildlife trafficking during the coronavirus pandemic, authorities in South-east Asia must act swiftly to stop smugglers getting back in business once border controls are relaxed, according to a forthcoming UN report. Traffickers' networks were disrupted as countries shut their borders and tightened surveillance when the coronavirus struck last year. Due to the widespread perception that the virus first emerged in a Chinese market where wildlife wa

WASHINGTON( Reuters)-The United States spent more than$ 8 billion over 15 years on efforts to deprive the Taliban of their profits from Afghanistan's opium and heroin trade, from poppy eradication to airstrikes and raids on suspected labs.... A May 2021 U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan( SIGAR) report quoted a U.S. official as estimating they derive up to 60% of their annual revenue from illicit narcotics. Some experts dispute that data.... Mansfield says his field studies show th

Last July, a prosecutor in California sent a letter to Elon Musk's SpaceX with an urgent message: The company's internet satellite dishes are being used by criminal organizations in so-called" scam compounds" across Southeast Asia. Starlink, which was developed by SpaceX in 2019, provides internet to remote locations, and the company's satellite systems have been used in war-torn Ukraine, in hospitals in Gaza, and in areas affected by hurricanes. But over the last several years, according to int

Most of the burden of disease was among males, who contributed to 71 per cent of deaths. Cannabis continues to dominate the total quantities of drugs seized globally.... The largest quantities of cannabis herb seized in 2019 which totalled 3, 779 tonnes were reported by the United States.... The largest quantities of cannabis resin seized which totalled 1, 395 tonnes were reported by Spain, followed by Morocco, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran. Published in Dawn, June 27th, 2021....

( Reuters)-Lao police have seized a record haul of illicit drugs in the Golden Triangle region, two security sources in Thailand confirmed on Thursday, in what the United Nations said was Asia's largest single drug bust ever. More than 55 million amphetamine tablets and over 1.5 tonnes of crystal methamphetamine were intercepted by Laos police on Wednesday, who stopped a truck carrying beer crates in northern Bokeo, which borders Thailand and Myanmar, the two sources told Reuters. Jeremy Douglas

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