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In Mekong region, drug trade thrives 14 Johanna Son Founder/editor of the Reporting ASEAN series published : 15 Jul 2021 at 04:00 14 Confiscated synthetic drugs, including 167 kilogrammes of ketamine as well as other popular recreational drugs, in this file photo from April 7. (Photo: Nutthawat Wicheanbut) An example of a resilient business model in hard times? Indeed, except that this describes how the synthetic drug industry has been expanding in East and Southeast Asia, home to the Mekong region which is the manufacturing and trafficking hub that supplies illicit drugs that reach not just the wider Asia but the globe. Referring to a report on the synthetic drug situation, Inshik Sim, drug programme analyst for Southeast Asia and the Pacific for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), said: Covid-19 has had very, very limited impact and especially in the Mekong region, we don t see much impact of Covid-19,

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