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Tag: Drug Addiction

More than 200 inmates broke out from a rehab center in Vietnam. Photo: Subio Creative Studio
Posted inAT Finance, Vietnam

Over 200 addicts break out of Vietnam drug rehab center

by Asia Times staff August 14, 2018February 18, 2020

A total of 224 drug addicts broke out of a rehab center in Chau Tanh in Vietnam’s Tien Giang province on August 11. Reports say the escape may have been a protest against alleged torture in the facility. On Saturday morning, a dispute between inmates and staff developed into an altercation, the VN Express reported. Soon […]

Thai police seized kratom leaves picked from 6,000 krathom trees planted near a house in southern Prachuab Khirikhan province in June, 2014. The stimulant is popular in southern Thailand and across much of Southeast Asia. Photo: AFP/Bangkok Post/Chaiwat Sardyaem
Posted inAfghanistan, AT Finance, Bangladesh, European Union, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Middle East, Myanmar, Northeast Asia, Philippines, South Asia, Thailand, Vietnam, World

Prescription painkillers a new headache for narcotics agencies 

by Alan Boyd July 1, 2018February 18, 2020
Bangladeshi police display confiscated narcotics in Dhaka. Photo: NurPhoto via AFP/Mehedi Hasan
Posted inAT Finance, Bangladesh, Myanmar, South Asia

Accounts paint grim picture of drug crisis in Bangladesh

by Bertil Lintner June 7, 2018February 18, 2020
The High Court in Hong Kong. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
Posted inAT Finance, China, Hong Kong, Middle East, Pakistan, Philippines, South Asia

Pakistani guard gets life in jail for murder of Filipina

by Asia Times staff February 1, 2018February 18, 2020
The Kimberley Hotel in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon.
Photo: Google Maps
Posted inAustralia, Middle East, Oceania

Australian woman rushed to hospital after ‘drug overdose’

by Asia Times staff November 9, 2017February 18, 2020
Suspect of a robbery and rape case killed himself at Sau Mau Ping Police Station. Photo: Google Map
Posted inChina, Hong Kong, Middle East

Rape, robbery suspect found dead in police custody

by Asia Times staff May 11, 2017February 18, 2020

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