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Drug mules bear the brunt of rising cocaine arrests

9 Jun 2012

Cocaine smuggling from South America is on the rise.

Drug cartels are using couriers, or 'mules', trained to carry up to 1.7kg of the drug in their stomachs for flights lasting 20...

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Pair get 15 years for smuggling cocaine to HK

16 Dec 2011

A Paraguayan and his Chinese accomplice were jailed for 15 years yesterday for smuggling HK$67 million worth of cocaine from South America to Hong Kong.

The consequences of their...

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567kg drugs bust largest ever for city

19 Sep 2011

Cocaine recovered from a recycling warehouse in Tuen Mun stacks up to the largest seizure of the drug ever in the city - worth some HK$600 million - police said yesterday.

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Jordan raid nets huge drug haul

26 Aug 2010

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300kg haul of cocaine found in NT house

26 Apr 2010

A village head and his family members in Fanling are being investigated after police found about 300 kilograms of cocaine worth HK$300 million in his house - the largest seizure of the drug in the...

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Worker jailed for manufacturing cocaine

27 Jan 2010

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Opinion

Worrying economic parallels between China and India

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Howard Winn

Elsie Leung caught up in Rusal's byzantine politics

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Brown gets six-month ban for cocaine

Australian becomes the third jockey in four years to fall foul of drugs rules

Australian jockey Corey Brown has been suspended for six months after becoming the third Hong Kong-based...

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I started smoking aged six and was on cocaine at seven

While most children find toys, TV games or ice cream irresistible, Ah Shing, now 15, used to prefer a different indulgence - puffing cocaine, which he has been doing since he was seven.

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17 years for drug trader

Nigerian trader Isyaka Mamman, 39, was jailed for 17 years at the Court of First Instance after being found guilty of importing 491 grams of cocaine into Hong Kong from Brazil hidden in a diary...

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Cocaine haul

LIVERPOOL: Customs officers seized GBP3 million (HK$34.95 million) worth of cocaine during a random search of a South American freighter docked at Liverpool. The ship had sailed from Peru.

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