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  One of the world’s most wanted drug kingpin was arrested at an airport in Amsterdam over the weekend while trying to return to Canada. His arrest ended a global manhunt for one the biggest and most important global kingpins. Mr Lop was described as Asia’s El Chapo. Tse Chi Lop, 57, was born in China and immigrated to Canada, where he learned important lessons in underworld economics and the value of alliances from the Montreal Mafia, two characteristics that would help forge an empire. He laid a foundation for what authorities allege blossomed into one of the world’s most prolific drug syndicates from a base in Toronto.  Also, his vast wealth and power kept his

India's first domestic candidate to get the green light from the government's drug regulator to proceed with  human trials of  COVID-19 vaccine is  Bharat Biotech International Ltd. The Drug Controller General of India has approved the company's application to conduct a Phase I and II clinical trial of Covaxin, which was developed along with the Indian Council of Medical Research's National Institute of Virology, the company said in a statement on Monday. Human clinical trials are scheduled to start across the country in July for the vaccine, which was developed and manufactured in Bharat Biotech's facility at Genome Valley in Hyderabad, India. More than 16,000 people have died from the disease since the first case in India in January - low when compared with countries with similar numbers of cases. But experts fear hospitals in the densely populated nation will be unable to cope with a steep rise in cases,  as cases surge in a country with more than 1.3 billion peo...

Asia's  biggest drug bust  in decades, made possible by the  Myanmar police,  seizing hundreds of millions of dollars worth of contraband including  "unprecedented"   amounts of methylfentanyl, a dangerously potent synthetic opioid. The seizures announced Monday were conducted during a three-month operation that centered around Lwe Kham village in Kutkhai Township in Myanmar's northeast Shan state. Thirty-three suspects were arrested. Jeremy Douglas, the regional coordinator for the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC), said the scale of the seizure was "truly off-the-charts."