Asia-Pacific meth market the world's biggest

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NSTregion: UNODC representative for Southeast Asia and the Pacific Jeremy Douglas had announced that the Asia-Pacific meth market was now the biggest in the world.

The users consumed about 320 tonnes of pure methamphetamine last year, with the bulk from industrial-scale labs in northern Myanmar, said a United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime report quoted by Bangkok Post.

Transnational crime syndicates are growing more powerful, especially in Southeast Asia, by exploiting rampant corruption, weak law enforcement and lax border controls. Most worrying is that many of the drug cartels, based in Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and Thailand, are ‘outpacing the ability of law enforcement to respond, while posing serious threats to public security and sustainable development’.

 

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