FILE PHOTO: A view of the Mekong river bordering Thailand and Laos is seen from the Thai side in Nong Khai (Corrects to clarify that seizure was of tablets containing methamphetamine, not amphethamine ...

As dusk falls along the Mekong River, a nightly dance begins between Thai border security and Laos drug gangs now using drones, scouts and a pool of poor fishermen to shift record amounts of meth into ...

In a hut on the top of a fog-licked mountain in northern Laos, Vo Pali is getting high. His poison is opium, a sap extracted from poppies grown illegally by the poor hill tribes in the Communist state ...

Police in Laos confiscated more than a ton of methamphetamine recently in what international law enforcement authorities are characterizing as one of Asia’s largest drug busts ever. More than 1.5 tons ...

VIENTIANE, Laos — A court in Laos found a pregnant British woman guilty of trafficking heroin and sentenced her to life in prison Wednesday, a court official said. The life sentence for 20-year-old ...

(Corrects to clarify that seizure was of tablets containing methamphetamine, not amphethamine, in paragraph two) (Reuters) - Lao police have seized a record haul of illicit drugs in the Golden ...

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