Counterdrug Press Summary
10 - 16 November 2005
Table of Contents
Cambodian Drug Users Raise New AIDS
Threat
Police Seize Cambodian Ecstasy
Trafficker In Kien Giang
Chinese Mafia Spins Web In The
South Seas
China, Romania To Enhance Anti-Drug
Co-Op
Nightclubs Responsible For Drug Use
Bali Nine Accused Wants AFP To
Testify
Bali Nine Father Planned To
Intervene, Court Told
Minister Denies Link To Leslie
I Probably Met Leslie, Bakrie Says
Charges Against Bali 9 To Stand
Cover-Up Allegation In Leslie Drug
Case
Fear Stifled Truth, Says
Drug-Accused Model
Lawrence's Lawyer Has A Heroin
Taste Test
Leslie Back In Court, Hoping To Be
Freed
Leslie Could Be Free By Next Week
Model's Mercy Plea Rules Out Long
Jail Term
Police 'Almost Forgot' To Nab Bali
9
Indonesia Nets Europeans In Drugs
Factory Raid
Indonesia Raids One Of World's
Largest Ecstasy Factories
I'll Tell Truth On Drugs: Leslie
Australian On Trial In Borneo Over
Drugs
Michelle Leslie Only Receives
Three-Month Jail Sentence
Optimistic Leslie Arrives At Court
Prosecutors Drop Main Charge
Against Leslie
Officers On Alert To Foil Planned
Trafficking Of Large-Scale Drugs
Driver With 12 Offences On Drugs
Charge
Drugs Bust Nets Mum In Confinement
No Money For Drugs, So Kudat Youth
Assaults Mum
Using Methadone To Kick Drug Habit
Two Arrested, Rm30,000 Pills Seized
Attempts To Produce Stimulant Drugs
In M'sia Foiled
Syabu Abuse 'Serious' In Silam,
Kunak, LD
Tough On Drugs, Soft On Drug Lords
Officers On Alert To Foil Planned
Trafficking Of Large-Scale Drugs
Bicol ‘Cop’ Arrested For
Transporting Shabu
'Ex-Cop' Arrested For 'Sale Of
Shabu'
Illegal Drug Angle Eyed In Attack
Man Nabbed In Illegal Drug Bust
MILF Spokesman’s Brod Killed In
Drug Bust; Another Kin Nabbed
Man Collared For Trying To Sell
Half-Kilo Of Shabu
Narcotics Group Nabs 6 In Marijuana
Trade
Police Officer Nabbed In
Anti-Narcotics Raid In Quezon City
Tough On Drugs, Soft On Drug Lords
Anglican Primate Wants Drug
Trafficker Spared
Howard 'Lacks Heart' On Nguyen
Death In Singapore: You Must Speak
Out, Mr Howard
Howard Urged To Raise Death Penalty
At APEC
Nguyen Unlikely To Be Spared:
Lawyer
Singapore MP Says Drug Penalties
Should Not Be Changed For One Man
Twins - One On Death Row, Other In
Despair
QRSciences To Commence Working
Trial With Singaporean Immigration
UN Rights Expert Calls On Singapore
Not To Execute Convicted Drug Trafficker
Downer's Final Bid For Clemency For
Nguyen Fails
Execution Decision 'Irreversible'
Taiwan Succeeds In Helping Thailand
Bust Cross-Border Drug Ring
Officers On Alert To Foil Planned
Trafficking Of Large-Scale Drugs
Thailand To Punch Drug Dealers
Supporting Insurgents
Traffickers `Financing Separatists'
Asian-Pacific Countries Pledge To
Support Vietnam In Drug Fighting
Drugs Still Thread Their Way Into
Vietnam, 28 Traffickers Arrested
Son La Police Crack Heroin
Trafficking Ring
Vietnam Police Gather Evidence To
Arraign 10 Drug Dealers
Police Seize Cambodian Ecstasy
Trafficker In Kien Giang
Vietnamese-Belgian Ecstasy
Trafficker Arrested
Cambodian drug addicts have adopted a new tactic — selling their blood to hospitals — to pay for their habits, and the practice is threatening to unravel the country‘s gains in fighting HIV / AIDS , officials and experts warn. Cambodia has had no known cases of HIV being spread by blood transfusions, but if HIV infected blood entered the hospital system in even a single case it "would be a disaster," said Dr. Massimo Ghidinelli, a World Health Organization adviser on HIV/AIDS in the country. Injecting heroin users are one of the groups most at risk for spreading HIV through the shared use of contaminated syringes. Amphetamine users are also considered high risk because the stimulant clouds their judgment and can lead to unsafe sex practices. Addicts sometimes sold their blood as often as twice a week and earned around $4.80 each time, said Kathryn O‘Connell, the report‘s author. But the country‘s health system is decrepit and poorly funded. Regular healthy blood donors are in short supply, leading to a reliance on paid donors and correct testing procedure often were not followed. A large sex industry, traditional male promiscuity and low levels of condom use in Cambodia helped give the country one of the highest HIV infection rates in Asia — though education campaigns have helped curb dangerous sexual activity. Cambodian authorities have failed to effectively tackle the illicit drug trade. (continued)
Source: Leading the Charge/KER MUNTHIT/12 November 2005/ http://www.leadingthecharge.com/stories/news-0098776.html
The General Department of Police, in coordination with local police, has seized