Man held following tip-off on stolen cars

B>PENANG: /B>A 43-year-old man said to be a drug trafficking syndicate member was arrested at Jalan Trang, here.

New rules for car importers

Foreign car importers will now have to pay duties on their vehicles directly to the Customs Department the moment they are brought into the country.

Foreigners, expats arrested in drug raid: 11 charged

SECURITY guards at Oxley Gardens kept a special watch on a particular second-floor apartment after neighbours complained of excessive noise in the usually quiet estate.

Stakeout on painter’s home leads to discovery of drugs centre

A two-week surveillance of a painter living in an apartment along Jalan Haji Jaib here led to the busting of an Ecstasy and I>syabu/Iprocessing centre here.

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One tonne of ketamine seized in biggest drug bust

THE biggest international drug smuggling ring since 1949 was busted when nearly a tonne of ketamine was seized at the Yantai port city in Shangdong Province and six suspects arrested on Sept 19.

Three Taiwanese held for trafficking

Three Taiwanese, two of them women, were arrested at the KL International Airport for trying to smuggle out 4.5kg of ketamine.

Increase in white-collar drug addicts

EXECUTIVES, college students, actors and public servants have joined jobless youngsters in abusing drugs, police revealed on Tuesday.

Impossible to abolish road tax

THE Government will not be able to abolish road tax as it is one of its main sources of revenue, Transport Minister Datuk Seri Chan Kong Choy was quoted as saying by I>Mingguan Malaysia/I>.

Crackdown on ketamine abuse

Even as the number of drug offenders drops, the Central Narcotics Bureau is seeking to fight ketamine's recently acquired position as the drug of choice by tightening penalties for traffickers.