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More than half a billion dollars worth of narcotics were burned in Myanmar on Sunday after the UN warns that drug production and trafficking in the region has hit record levels this year.
The so-called Southeast Asian Golden Triangle has long been a notorious point for drug trafficking, with porous borders of Myanmar, Laos and Thailand and weak local police allowing illegal substances to cross.
Last month, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime said authorities seized nearly 172 tonnes of methamphetamine last year, nearly seven times more than a decade ago.
The northern Shan state of Myanmar remains the region’s main source of narcotics, with drugs increasingly being shipped to Laos, then to Thailand before reaching Malaysia, where it is trafficked to countries across Asia Pacific.
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