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Woman held for bid to sell party drug to undercover Dubai policeman The 26-year-old Asian housewife, identified as SKM, was contacted after police received a tip about her activities. A policeman from the General Anti-Narcotics Department told her he wanted to buy some ecstasy tablets. They agreed to meet at a set ...

Palmyrah palms to solve human-elephant conflict : A sustainable solution has been found for the human-elephant conflict in Sri Lanka by Practical Action, said Practical Action Sri Lanka Team Leader Ranasinghe Perera, addressing a press conference yesterday at the Buddhist Cultural Centre, Colombo.

The killing of Shias --it is hard to refute the accusation that the military ... : ... even after killing a large number of people the militants were able to escape as is common in almost all the events of target killings and the perpetrators of such organised crime remain untouched. The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) urges ...

China Clamps Down After Tibetan Self-Immolations : A rash of self-immolations by Tibetan monks. Chinese troops streaming into the eastern part of the Tibetan Plateau. Host Yul Kwon speaks with Professor Robert Barnett of Colombia University about unrest in Tibet and China's reaction ...

International Narcotics Control Board Report for 2011 launched : 29, GNA – International Narcotics Control Board 2011 Report has been launched in Accra with a call on Sub-Regional governments to seriously tackle the growing scale of the threat illicit drug trafficking posed to governance, security and democracy.

Two held for selling drugs AJMAN - The Ajman Police recently nabbed an Asian man and woman for allegedly smuggling and trying to sell drugs . Colonel Saeed Humaid Nasser, Director of the police's Anti-Narcotic Department, said following a tipoff, the department monitored the ...

Drug addicts getting their fix online : Abuse of benzodiazepines is a growing concern in East Asia and South-east Asia , says the INCB in its latest annual report. (ANN/The Straits Times) Drug addicts are now getting their fix where a lot of crime is increasingly taking place: online. Jakarta Post

Remittance from Nepalese diaspora As much as 30 per cent of the households in the country receive remittance, which is one of the major factors in the reduction of poverty from 42 per cent to 31 per cent between 1996 and 2005 and recently to 25 per cent. In this regard, it is important ...

Afghan opium main financial source for Taliban fighters : By Ghanizada - Wed Feb 29, 9:15 pm According to officials in the ministry of counter-narcotics of Afghanistan , Afghan Taliban militants and Pakistani Taliban fighters are gaining billions of dollars through opium trade in Afghanistan . Khaama Press

UN report lists Canada as a top exporter of ecstasy : BC officials have linked five deaths in the past six months to similar tainted ecstasy drugs . "Canada remains a significant source for 'ecstasy' trafficked into the United States, with a resurgence of the abuse of the substance in the (US) being ...

Anas Implicated as 'Big Boss' in Nazaruddin Corruption Trial : Nazaruddin is on trial for his part in a corruption scheme linked to the construction of the athletes' village for last year's Southeast Asian Games in Palembang, South Sumatra. Baskoro said Anas usually came to his office on the sixth floor of the ... Jakarta Globe

Tibetan monks' residency provides lessons for students at River Forest school This month, the River Forest university hosted members of the Drepung Loseling Monastery in India for a program titled Mystical Arts of Tibet . The residency included not only the construction of the sand mandala and a chanting performance but a chance ...

Mongolia to tap wind power : 29 (UPI) -- Construction on Mongolia's first wind farm is to start next month. The $100 million Salkhit -- "windy mountain" -- project, 40 miles southeast of Ulan Bator, Mongolia's capital city, is expected to generate nearly 5 percent of Mongolia's ...