Methamphetamine

Hong Kong must continue cross-border co-operation on narcotics

19 May 2013

One of the challenges to anti-drug authorities posed by the growing trade in methamphetamines is that they are easily produced in small, widely dispersed laboratories, so it is difficult to cut...

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British woman arrested in Indonesia over trafficking of drugs from China

18 May 2013

A British woman could face the death penalty in Indonesia after being arrested for allegedly smuggling crystal methamphetamine into the country from China, an official said.

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Australian police smash Hong Kong-linked drug ring

22 Mar 2013

Australian police said on Friday they had smashed a crime syndicate operating across Asia, leading to 27 arrests and the seizure of drugs and assets worth millions of dollars. Authorities said the...

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Hong Kong man charged over record Australian drug bust

1 Mar 2013

A 51-year-old Hong Kong man may face life in an Australian prison after being charged yesterday in the biggest seizure of the drug Ice in that country's history.

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Hong Kong man arrested in record Australian methamphetamine bust

28 Feb 2013

A Singaporean and a man from Hong Kong have been arrested in connection with an unprecedented methamphetamine seizure in Australia that was almost double the previous record, police said on...

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Steamroller yields A$237m China drugs haul

22 Nov 2012

Australian police said yesterday they had seized cocaine and methamphetamine worth A$237 million (HK$1.9 billion) shipped from China and hidden in a steamroller.

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Opinion

Tom Holland

Attempts to diversify China's reserves have been a disaster

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Howard Winn

China is like the EU; provinces are its member states

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Bug HK cargo of Ice drug seized by Australian police

For the second time this year, Australian police have uncovered a huge shipment of the drug Ice from Hong Kong, this time hidden in a container filled with furniture.

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Customs seizes record HK$760m cocaine haul

A joint operation between Hong Kong and US authorities has led to the city's biggest seizure of cocaine.

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HK police go to Manila for drugs probe

Anti-narcotics police from Hong Kong are flying to Manila to help identify five suspects caught in a raid on an Ice factory in an upmarket gated housing estate.

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Two Hongkongers sought by police after further drug raids in Manila

Philippine anti-drugs police are searching for two Hongkongers after two Ice factories were found abandoned in the same upmarket community where five Hongkongers were arrested last week.

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Hongkongers held in Ice factory raid

Five Hongkongers, including twins, were arrested in a predawn raid on an Ice factory yesterday inside an upmarket gated complex in suburban Manila.

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Welcome to Shanghai ... or Shang-high for some

'You like a smoke?' he asks, taking a long drag on his sweetly fragrant roll-up and leaning back against a pet-shop window.

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