Foreign Correspondence

Kidnappers Demand Drugs

FAR EAST CORRESPONDENT — Two drug addicts took over an Acleda Bank branch in Kampong Cham province Tuesday evening, taking a number of staff hostage and initiating an hours-long, meth-fuelled standoff that is still ongoing, […]

Foreign Correspondence

ASEAN’s War on Drugs

FAR EAST CORRESPONDENT — The pledge by ASEAN leaders to intensify campaigns to create a drug-free ASEAN by 2015 is increasingly out of step with international trends which, according to the recent findings of The […]

Foreign Correspondence

The Latest Drug Route

FAR EAST CORRESPONDENT — Long-standing concerns that drug syndicates would exploit traditional people smuggling routes are now being realized. Indonesian authorities in particular are concerned that Iranian asylum seekers are being recruited into the drug trade. […]