Hawaiʻi lawmakers are considering regulating kratom and banning sales to minors. But kava advocates want an outright ban.

Several people submitted testimony that kratom, which comes from a tree that grows in southeast Asia, has helped with chronic ...

Colorado’s statewide grand jury indicted 10 people in an alleged drug trafficking ring that stretched from the far southeast ...

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA ... They had several meetings in Southeast Asia to discuss their ongoing transactions, prosecutors say. During one of these meetings, one of Ebisawa's ...

Aung Bo Bo, another Yangon resident, bemoaned the power cut timetable that can see houses plunged into darkness 12 hours a ...

Continuing its run of slate launches globally, Netflix unveiled new Indonesian originals premiering on its platform this year ...

Sentencing was set for April 9. Prosecutors say Ebisawa did not know he was communicating in 2021 and 2022 with a confidential source for the Drug Enforcement Administration along with the source ...

That a bank manager, of all people, could be fooled on a scale sufficient to bring down a bank is a sign of how sophisticated ...

A leader of Japan's Yakuza crime syndicate who tried to sell Iran weapons-grade plutonium has pleaded guilty to charges of trafficking narcotics, weapons and nuclear material.

It hosts annual “ASEAN Plus Three” meetings with the leaders of China, South Korea and Japan, “ASEAN Plus Six” talks that add in the leaders of Australia, India and New Zealand, and the East Asia ...

Kratom, a plant from Southeast Asia, has been a subject of controversy in the United States since its introduction after the ...