An alleged leader from Japan’s Yakuza crime syndicate has pleaded guilty to trafficking nuclear materials from Myanmar as part of a global web of trades in drugs, weapons and laundered cash, according to the US Department of Justice.

Tokyo: In a concerning development, a leader of Japan's notorious gang has reportedly orchestrated a scheme to smuggle nuclear material and heavy weapons intended for warfare. Takeshi Ebisawa was found guilty of transporting lethal materials from Myanmar as part of a global smuggling racket.

Ebisawa unwittingly introduced an undercover US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent, referred to by the US Department of Justice as UC-1, to his "international network of criminal associates" which spanned Japan, Thailand, Myanmar (also known as ...

Prosecutors say Ebisawa didn't know he was communicating in 2021 and 2022 with a confidential source for the Drug Enforcement Administration along with ... leader of an "ethnic insurgent group" in Myanmar who had been mining uranium in the country ...

During an undercover investigation by the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA ... associates to traffic the nuclear materials out of Myanmar, it said. He also admitted to international ...

Members of the Lancang-Mekong Integrated Law Enforcement and Security Cooperation Center – China, Myanmar, Thailand Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam – will begin the second phase of an operation against the criminals, the embassy said. It did not give details of what it would entail.

The Department of Transportation requires specific workers such as truck drivers and pilots to submit to pre-employment drug testing. Meanwhile, federal employees in law enforcement, national ...

Consisting of five separate booklets, the World Drug Report 2022 provides an in-depth analysis of global drug markets and examines the nexus between drugs and the environment within the bigger picture of the Sustainable Development Goals, climate change ...

BANGKOK - In an uneven year for democracy and rights globally the Asia-Pacific region saw some encouraging signs Human Rights Watch says in its World

In a report released on Thursday, the US Trade Representative’s (USTR) office, the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) said that China's dominance in the maritime, logistics, and shipbuilding sectors is "unreasonable" and "actionable" under U.S. trade law.

As President-elect Donald Trump looks to make sweeping changes to immigration policy in his second term, we revisit the history of immigration law through past presidencies starting in the 1700s.

THE recurrence of fires in Rohingya camps is gravely concerning. More than 200 fire broke out in Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar in two years that left dozens dead and many injured, with hundreds of shelters having been destroyed.