NILAI: The Customs Department has seized 28kg of methamphetamine worth some RM1mil and arrested five suspects, including a pair of twins, believed to be runners for a drug syndicate. Customs director-general Datuk Seri Abdul Latif Abdul Kadir said his officers made a breakthrough in the case when they arrested an Indonesian man in Puchong, Selangor, at around 6pm on Sept 13. "My staff saw two men behaving suspiciously in a car at a parking lot and asked them to stop but they refused. "They crashed into a Customs vehicle in their bid to escape and my officers gave chase," he told reporters at the Customs (Narcotics) headquarters here on Thursday (Sept 23). After a short distance, both suspects got out of their vehicle and ran into a residential-cum-commercial area. Customs personnel managed to apprehend a suspect, an Indonesian, inside a shop at Pusat Bandar Puchong a short while later. "We checked their car and found the drugs stashed in two backpacks in the boot. "The ... » Learn More about Customs seizes 28kg of meth, twins among five suspects arrested
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Under pressure, US donates half billion more COVID-19 vaccine doses to world
The United States on Wednesday, September 22, promised to buy 50 million more COVID-19 vaccine doses to donate to other countries as it comes under increasing pressure to share its supply with the rest of the world. President Joe Biden made the announcement during a virtual summit aimed at boosting global vaccination rates against the coronavirus and rallying world leaders to do more. "To beat the pandemic here we need to beat it everywhere," Biden said as he kicked off the summit, which included leaders from Britain, Canada, Indonesia and South Africa as well as World Health Organization head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. "This is an all hands on deck crisis," Biden said of the pandemic that has raged since early 2020, killing more than The additional vaccines will bring US donations to more than 1.1 billion doses, far short of the 5 billion to 6 billion doses global health experts say is needed by poorer countries. Delivery of the new tranche will begin ... » Learn More about Under pressure, US donates half billion more COVID-19 vaccine doses to world