MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino priest, who publicly protested against then-President Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody crackdown against illegal drugs despite death threats and helped provide proper funerals to slain suspects, is among the winners of this year’s Ramon Magsaysay Awards — Asia’s version of the Nobel Prize. The other winners announced on Sunday were a…
MIAMI (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard seized more than 75,000 pounds (34,000 kilograms) of illegal drugs this summer from boats far out to sea in the Pacific and Caribbean, which the service called its largest-ever haul worth nearly half a billion dollars. The Coast Guard worked with the Department of Defense on these seizures,…
Hong Kong customs has arrested a 46-year-old man after he was allegedly caught in possession of about HK$14 million (US$1.8 million) worth of the key ingredient for the narcotic “space oil”, concealed inside food packages. Customs on Sunday said officers had intercepted the man, who had been holding a suitcase, during an anti-narcotics operation in…
Hong Kong customs has arrested a 46-year-old man after he was allegedly caught in possession of about HK$14 million (US$1.8 million) worth of the key ingredient for the narcotic “space oil”, concealed inside food packages. Customs on Sunday said officers had intercepted the man, who had been holding a suitcase, during an anti-narcotics operation in…
Hong Kong customs officers have arrested a man after he allegedly arrived in the city on a flight from Thailand with cannabis buds worth about HK$5.4 million (US$696,200) in his suitcase. The Customs and Excise Department said on Thursday that the 49-year-old man had flown into the city from Bangkok the day before. During customs…
Hong Kong customs has confiscated more than 2.6 tonnes of illegal drugs valued at HK$1.1 billion (US$141.8 million) and arrested 102 people in an air-land-sea anti-narcotics operation in the first quarter of 2025, the Post has learned. Latest figures obtained by the Post revealed that the haul marked a 33 per cent increase compared with…
Hong Kong is battling a sharp rise in drug cases involving a newly emerging narcotic known as “space oil”, with police handling 90 reports in the first 10 months of the year compared with only eight in all of 2023. The force provided the latest data on Tuesday and said officers had arrested 99 people…
Hong Kong police have arrested three suspects for allegedly manufacturing dangerous drugs after finding more than 2kg (4.4lbs) of crack cocaine and cocaine worth HK$2.2 million (US$283,000) in a village house in Sheung Shui. Senior Inspector Lui Long-ching of the Tseung Kwan O police district’s anti-triad section said on Saturday that officers arrested two men,…