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 and synthetic drug trafficking are exploding across Southeast Asia, with record-breaking seizures exposing the scale of the crisis.

The Trump administration fired three workers at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) on Friday as they were in Myanmar to assess damage from the earthquake and to report back on wa… ...

The move comes despite Secretary of State Marco Rubio saying the U.S. would still do some humanitarian work while shrinking foreign aid. Democratic lawmakers have denounced the cuts.

Myanmar’s scam operations are expanding south along Thailand’s border, authorities have told VOA in recent days, and will continue operating as long as their access to SIM cards, Starlink ...

Derek Maltz, a veteran of the Drug Enforcement Administration, is expected to help lead Trump's effort to fight fentanyl traffickers with terror laws.

BANGKOK (AP) — There has been a slight drop in the production of opium in Myanmar, the world’s biggest source of the illicit drug from which heroin is derived, experts from the United Nations ...

The DEA is not the hard-boiled dope-busting elite portrayed in popular culture. The recent cases of Yakuza involvement in a supposed Myanmar-focused “arms for heroin” deal in 2022 stretches ...

06/05/2024 As Myanmar's civil war disrupts daily life, illegal drug production is seen as an economic lifeline. The country is now the world's No. 1 producer of opium poppy.

Myanmar’s military government is fighting to stay in power as a civil war draws in neighbors and turns the country into a global hub for organized crime.

One of the few things that is widely known about Myanmar’s Wa State is the central role that it plays in Southeast Asia’s multibillion-dollar narcotics trade. But for the United Wa State Army ...

The Biden administration’s compliance with SAC restrictions on the delivery of humanitarian assistance has undermined the image of the U.S. government within Myanmar’s resistance movement.