Asia's drug cartels adapted quickly to the pandemic in 2020, flooding markets with synthetic narcotics worth tens of billions of dollars even as the global economy ground to a halt, according to a new United Nations report.
BANGKOK, June 10 Drug traffickers in East and South-east Asia found ways to evade Covid-19 curbs to boost trade and diversify production, with Cambodia emerging as a large-scale source for methamphetamine, the United Nations said on Thursday. The trafficking of methamphetamine or meth, by far.
BANGKOK Drug traffickers in East and Southeast Asia found ways to evade COVID-19 curbs to boost trade and diversify production, with Cambodia emerging as a…
Asian methamphetamine traffickers have rebounded after taking a hit during the pandemic, the UN says, as drug syndicates found ways to boost their business.