Myanmar soldier arrested with meth cache

YANGON: A Myanmar soldier and two others in northern Rakhine State have been arrested over a cache of methamphetamine pills worth US$3.6mil (RM14.2mil), authorities said, as a lucrative drug trade courses through a region reeling from the army’s brutal expulsion of Rohingya Muslims.

Army Private Aung Kyaw Naing and villager Aung Than Htay were arrested at a checkpoint in Rakhine’s Rathedaung township on May 7 with nearly 200,000 meth tablets, according to a Facebook post from the government’s Information Committee.