China

Illegal drug trade in China: 'Golden Triangle' as a base, drug trafficking pass through and to the world.

Opium growing and cultivation in ‘ Golden Triangle’ increases recently. Burma produced 580 tons opium in 2010, which is 20% more than that in 2009. China, as a close neighbour to Burma, is on the routes of drug smuggling from Burma to international markets. However, within recent two decades, China is not only a channel of drug trafficking but also a drug consuming country. Previously, drug was only secretly planted and trafficked in remote countryside and rural areas, but rich people in large cities become considerable drug consumers recently.

China’s harm reduction programmes implemented since 2003

Between the 1950s and 1980s, China had relatively low levels of drug use. Little attention was put on drugs and HIV prevention by government. However, drug trafficking increasing across the Southern border of China, rapidly increased the supply of drugs in China.

China Changes The Way It Treats Drug Users

In China there has always been a perception by law officials that if you are a drug user you will always remain a drug user. It is why all those who come forward for treatment in China end up going through compulsory urine tests for drugs for the rest of their lives even if they have not been on drugs for a long time.

Cocaine to China and an attack on Bolivia cultural expression

The publication Latin American Newsletters have claimed that the growing new market for cocaine in Asia is linked it to a decrease in cocaine consumption in the United States. This decrease is claimed by US drugs czar Gil Kerlikowske to be a result of action by his office. He is claiming that since 2007 the number of cocaine users in the United States has fallen by 21%. This has been linked to two large seizures of cocaine in Hong Kong in the past year, one of which is claimed to have originated in Bolivia.

Drug laws kill

This video is part of the Release campaign “Nice People Take Drugs.” The film is intended to reflect the silence and hypocrisy of politicians regarding drug use as many of them have admitted to trying them at least once. But most importantly, every year thousands of people are executed in Asia for trafficking and/or use of drugs.

A Chinese view of World Drugs Day

The Law Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking came in to force in China on 1st June 2008. After this Ni Shou, the press spokesman of the Supreme People’s Court of China, introduced the legal punishment for drug-related crimes in China during an interview given by China Daily Newspaper: courts across the country has heard 33,285 drug committing cases during the year of 2007 and has sentenced 38,154 drug offenders. Among them, 12,979 drug offenders are sentenced for more than 5-year-term imprisonment, life imprisonment and death penalty.

The Great Escape

Echoing the epic trials and tribulations of Steve McQueen’s great world war two adventure, 14 young inmates from china have attempted a daring break from their prison cells. However, instead of being war heroes who escape their evil Nazi prison guards, these 14 youths were internet geeks imprisoned in an internet rehabilitation centre. Nevertheless, the escape was certainly dramatic, involved them capturing their guard then tying him to a bed and made a break for freedom.

Where darkness knows no limits

This month Human Rights Watch (HRW) issued a report detailing the experiences of former detainees in the drug detoxification centers in China's Yunnan province.

The song Akmal Shaikh said would bring world peace

Akmal Shaikh is a UK citizen facing the death sentence in China for drug smuggling. Akmal suffers from a serious mental illness and it is obvious that a criminal group took advantage of his vulnerable state. They convinced him that he could become a pop star and that he would become famous in China.

This man is clearly not responsible for his actions click here to try and save this man from the death penalty

Stop the Execution of Akmal Shaikh

Chinese Communist Party Secretary dies from official binge-drinking

Submitted by mej-juana on Tue, 10/11/2009 - 13:17

Today many British newspapers are reporting on the death of Shen Hao, 46, the communist Party Secretary of Fengyang county's Xiaogang village, who died on Friday after an official binge-drinking-prone banquet. Mr Shen is now the third victim of a new tradition of lush business events in which drinking heavily is the way to prove status and engage in conversation. Previous victims were Jin Guoqing, deputy director of water resources in Xinzhou district (47) and Guo Shizhong, a family planning official from Xinyang, Central China's Henan province.

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