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44th Senior Officials Meeting on Drug Matters discusses illegal drug problems

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has held the 44th Senior Officials Meeting on Drug Matters (ASOD) forum to address emerging issues on the drug trafficking front. ...

Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501320128/44th-senior-officials-meeting-on-drug-matters-discusses-illegal-drug-problems/

Six sent to court over 700kg drugs

Over 700kg of illegal drugs were seized and six people sent to court in two separate cases following police operations on March 21 and March 22. ...

Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/six-sent-court-over-700kg-drugs

Police seize firearms, 60kg of illegal drugs

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court is questioning four men – one Cambodian and three Thais – in connection with the trafficking of nearly 65kg of drugs and illegal possession of three firearms.    ...

Nov Sivutha
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/police-seize-firearms-60kg-illegal-drugs

National Anti-Drug Authority urges 5 provincial authorities to prevent drugs from the Triangle zone

National Anti-Drug Authority launches action plan and urges 5 provincial authorities along the border to prevent drug trafficking from The Golden Triangle borders (Thailand, Laos, Myanmar) into the Greater Mekong Sub-region. ...

Lay Samean
https://www.postkhmer.com/national/2021-09-20-1300-223855.html

Cambodian cross-border drug trafficker gets death sentence

The People’s Court of the southern province of Tay Ninh handed a death penalty to a Cambodian drug trafficker during a trial on July 31. ...

Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50750757/cambodian-cross-border-drug-trafficker-gets-death-sentence/

Thailand pledges more assistance in drug fight

Thailand has pledged to provide more technical assistance and materials to the National Authority for Combating Drugs (NACD) to control and combat drug crimes along the Cambodian-Thai borders. ...

Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50743990/thailand-pledges-more-assistance-in-drug-fight/

Kingdom urges GMS countries to boost drug control actions

Gen. Meas Virith, Secretary General, National Authority for Combating Drugs (NACD) requested Greater Mekong Sub regional (GMS) countries to foster the implementation of drug control action plans. ...

Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50728465/kingdom-urges-gms-countries-to-boost-drug-control-actions/

Cambodia calls for help in drug battle

At a Wednesday meeting of the signatories to the Mekong Memorandum of Understanding on Drug Control, National Authority for Combating Drugs (NACD) secretary-general Meas Virith requested participating countries and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to seek a solution for the region’s burgeoning ...

Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodia-calls-help-drug-battle

NACD reports 40 percent rise in drug busts

The National Authority for Combating Drugs yesterday reported a 40 percent increase in drug seizures last year compared to 2018. ...

Ben Sokhean
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50702464/nacd-reports-40-percent-rise-in-drug-busts/

Cambodia and Laos renew border cooperation

Cambodia and Laos yesterday renewed their commitment to cooperate on border security issues, including drug trafficking. ...

Taing Vida
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50698716/cambodia-and-laos-renew-border-cooperation

National plan to strengthen gov’t anti-drug campaign

The National Strategic Development Plan 2019-2023 directs the authorities and relevant institutions to carry out effective prevention, crackdown and resolution of drug issues, and all commune authorities to be confident in dealing with drug problems in their areas. The directive was made during the drafting ...

Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/national-plan-strengthen-govt-anti-drug-campaign

Mekong countries vow drug action

Countries along the Mekong River have vowed to increase co-operation in cracking down on and preventing drug trafficking from the Golden Triangle area and the import of chemical substances for drug production.​ ...

Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mekong-countries-vow-drug-action

Four at large following prison break

Provincial prison chief Tin Sovanny said five prisoners had sawed off the bars of their prison cell at 3am on Saturday, using a blade they had kept hidden in their cells. One prisoner was found hiding in the forest near the prison, but the remaining ...

Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/38799/four-at-large-following-prison-break/

Foreign nationals held in drug raid

Anti-drug police officers arrested nine foreign nationals in a sting on a rental house on Sunday, accusing the men of involvement in a drug-trafficking ring catering to other foreigners in the vicinity of Phnom Penh’s Central Market, police said yesterday. ...

Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/foreign-nationals-held-drug-raid

AEC pushed back 12 months

Asean leaders have decided to delay the launch of the Asean Economic Community (AEC) for 12 months from Jan 1 to Dec 31, 2015 to prepare the necessary regulations. Lao deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs Thongloun Sisoulith told the Bangkok Post that Asean ...

http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/321914/aec-pushed-back-12-months

Investigation delays final Dara hearing

The Phnom Penh Court of Appeal yesterday postponed the final hearing of disgraced anti-drug czar Moek Dara, Chea Leng and Morn Doeun until next month, citing a need for more time in light of last-minute investigations by the Banteay Meanchey Provincial Court, a court official ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012091858764/National-news/investigation-delays-final-hearing-for-anti-drug-czar.html

Former Anti-Drugs Chief Says He Is a Victim, Not a Criminal

At his appeal hearing yesterday, former anti-drug police chief Moek Dara railed against what he said was injustice of his incarceration for a slew of drug-related crimes, for which he continues to deny his guilt. Mr. Dara, former chief of the National Authority for Combating Drugs, ...

No Probe Yet of Link to Taiwan Heroin Shipment

Cambodian police have yet to receive information about last week’s massive heroin haul by Taiwanese authorities, who indicated that the drugs were sourced from Cambodia, said Lieutenant General Khieu Sopheak, spokesman for the Interior Ministry. According to Taiwan’s Ministry of Justice, 70 kg of heroin were ...

Four Charged in Infantry General's Drug Case

A high-ranking army official, his driver and two others were charged with drug trafficking yesterday following a series of arrests over the weekend and a raid that yielded nearly 5kg of methamphetamine. Questioning of the four by prosecutors at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court finished yesterday ...

Cambodia Wants More Information on Taiwan's Heroin Haul

Police yesterday said they were seeking more information about a massive haul of heroin-allegedly transited through Cambodia-that was seized from a boat off the coast of Taiwan this week. The Taiwanese Justice Ministry’s Investigation Bureau says it found 70 kg of heroin hidden in a fishing ...

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