YANGON, February 16 (Xinhuanet) -- The Myanmar authorities seized
460,000 tablets of stimulant drugs in Lashio township, the country
's northern Shan state, early last month, the Myanmar Central
Committee for Drug Abuse Control said here on Saturday.
   The seizure was made by a combined team comprising local
intelligence unit and the police force when a search was made on a
man named Yanchin Kun on Thazin road in the township on January 7
with 50,000 stimulant tablets found possessed.
   The team, in a raid on two houses in the same township on the
same day, also confiscated 410,000 more stimulant tablets.
   Altogether three people were arrested in connection with the
case, it said, adding that they were punished under the country's
Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Law.
   According to official statistics, in 2001, Myanmar seized 32
million tablets of stimulant drugs, registering the highest amount
confiscated since 1996 when the country began a crack-down on such
narcotic drugs.  Enditem