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www.theasianstar.com SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 2024
Canadian found with $12 million in meth wrapped in vinegar and coffee on flight from Vancouver to Australia A Canadian woman was arrested at an airport in Australia after $12 million worth of meth was found in her luggage — despite elaborate effort to thwart detection: it was encased in plastic and wrapped in towels soaked in vinegar and layered with coffee beans, Australian officials said. The discovery in a suitcase from Vancouver is more evidence of Canada being a significant source country for the flood of drugs targeting
Australia, where street drugs command higher retail prices. The 24-year-old Canadian, who was not named by Australian authorities, arrived at Brisbane International Airport on a flight from Fiji after starting her journey in Vancouver, authorities said. When she arrived in Brisbane on July 28, she was sent for a baggage examination. Scans of a suitcase revealed anomalies inside. Continued on Page 7...
Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus is returning to Bangladesh to lead interim government Bangladesh’s Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus is set to return to Dhaka on Thursday to be sworn in as his country’s interim leader, after former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled to India Monday following widespread protests against her government.
Muhammad Yunus in middle
Rioters burned down police stations and attacked homes and temples of minority Hindus in the protests. “The whole edifice has collapsed,” said Jyoti Rahman, an Australiabased economist who writes on Bangladeshi politics and economy, referring to Hasina’s government. The Bangladesh military’s swift appointment of Yunus was a demand of students who led the protests that triggered the former prime minister’s resignation. “Any government other than the one we recommended would not be accepted,” Reuters quoted one of the student leaders, Nahid Islam, as writing on Facebook. Continued on Page 10...
BC landslide river surge reaches Lower Mainland Max Paulhus says he could hear wood breaking and a roaring sound before an approaching surge of water raced down the Fraser River after breaking free from a landslide upstream. Paulhus lives in Lillooet, B.C., and is one of several Fraser River community residents and business operators who described watching the power of water and debris churning from the Chilcotin River landslide towards British Columbia’s Lower Mainland. “You could hear an abnormal sound coming from the river,” said Paulhus, the Lillooet and District Rescue Society chief. “You could hear that noise. You could hear branches breaking. It
was almost like a roar.” Others downstream at Lytton and at the Hell’s Gate Airtram said they could also hear the river’s flow as the water and debris passed through Tuesday afternoon and evening. A landslide last week in Farwell Canyon, south of Williams Lake, dammed the Chilcotin River and created a lake about 11 kilometres long behind the slide. Water started flowing over the top of the landslide on Monday, and as the dam eroded a torrent of water raced down the Chilcotin, a tributary of the Fraser River, ripping away river banks and carrying off at least one heritage cabin.Continued on Page 15...
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RCMP seize weapons after viral video of Sikh men dancing with firearms at a wedding in Surrey
Surrey RCMP have seized firearms after a video circulated on social media showing Sikh men and women dancing with guns at a wedding, now confirmed to have been in South Surrey, B.C. Continued on Page 7...
Mystery surrounds US woman found starving and chained to tree in India Mystery surrounds an American woman who was found chained to a tree “screaming” in a forest in the western Indian state of Maharashtra. Lalita Kayi, 50, was discovered a week ago in the dense forests of Sindhudurg district after her cries for help were heard by shepherds. They alerted the police who sawed off the chain and rescued her. Ms Kayi, who appeared completely emaciated, was taken to hospital. Her physical health has since improved and, on Friday, she was moved to a psychiatric facility for further treatment, doctors treating her told the BBC. In a written statement to the police, she has alleged that her husband “chained her and left her in the forest to die without food or water”. Police say they are looking for her husband in the southern state of Tamil Nadu on the basis of information she provided them. Continued on Page 15...
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