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Organized crime [ syndicates ] have all the ingredients in place that they need to continue to grow the business, including territory to produce, access to chemicals, established trafficking routes and relationships to move product, and a massive population with spending power to target.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
The scale and reach of the methamphetamine and synthetic drug trade in Southeast Asia is staggering and yet Southeast Asia can continue to expand if the region does not change approach and address the root causes that have allowed it to get to this point.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
The continued drop in prices of crystal methamphetamine in Southeast Asia, for instance in Malaysia and Thailand, while purity of the drug remains high, means greater affordability and accessibility of high-purity drugs, organized crime [ syndicates ] have all the ingredients in place that they need to continue to grow the business, including territory to produce, access to chemicals, established trafficking routes and relationships to move product, and a massive population with spending power to target.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Organized crime groups have been able to continue the expansion of the regional synthetic drug trade -- in particular in the upper Lower Mekong and Shan state of Myanmar -- by maintaining a steady supply of chemicals into production areas despite border restrictions that have impacted legitimate cross-border trade.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Based on the intelligence Zhao Wei and Osiano've received, Zhao Wei is using a partnership with Osiano to expand the reach of Zhao Wei special economic zone.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
To put a piece of infrastructure like this in the hands of this gentleman and his companies is, frankly, unbelievable, we're really concerned.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The illicit drug market here is at a tipping point as synthetic opioid production appears to be migrating into places with deep governance problems like the Golden Triangle, southeast Asia could well become a source of opioids for other parts of the world while these substances get mixed into or displace part of the regional heroin supply.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It is hard to imagine that organised crime have again managed to expand the drug market, but they have, while the world has shifted its attention to the COVID-19 pandemic, all indications are that production and trafficking of synthetic drugs and chemicals continue at record levels in the region.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Before, cooperation at the operation level has been pretty ad hoc but now we hope it will be more organized, systematic, and efficient, we have to be on top of the situation. That means good intelligence and good information are necessary.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The challenge posed by Sam Gor is massive...they traffick drugs out using multiple borders at any one time. They are laundering money through various businesses across the Mekong.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
There has been a proliferation of casinos, something that is rarely talked about and deserves attention.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The Asia-Pacific meth market is now the biggest in the world, of all the organized crime types, meth trafficking is the most dangerous and the most profitable. It underpins the growing power of these transnational crime groups.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Wildlife and timber trafficking is also an emergency, extinction is on the horizon.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
It's highly likely that traffickers have just shifted approach.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We know from meeting and interviewing prisoners, including female prisoners, in Thailand, that the impact is profoundly negative for families.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
That's bigger than the economies of some Southeast Asian countries, it's like having an undeclared sovereign state in your midst with no borders and lots of money.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
You couldn't get much more central in Jakarta if you tried, it's basically right smack dab in the central business area.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Given the scale of the challenge ... she has a big task in front of her. It's not something that's going to be fixed in a day.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
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