UN warns of Asian security breakdown as Laos makes major meth bust

(AP)

Police in Laos have made their second huge seizure in three months of methamphetamine, which a UN expert on the illicit drug trade said reflects a breakdown of security in south-east Asia.

Jeremy Douglas, the regional representative for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, said the seizure of 36.5 million methamphetamine tablets in the north-western province of Bokeo was the region’s second largest after 55.6 million more were seized in October in the same province.