Pubdate: Mon, 27 Aug 2001
Source: San Jose Mercury News (CA)
Copyright: 2001 San Jose Mercury News
Contact:  http://www.sjmercury.com/
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China

REPORTS SAY SEIZURES, DRUG ARRESTS ARE UP

Drug arrests in China rose 15.4 percent in the first half of the year, and 
seizures of opium more than doubled, the official news agency said Sunday 
on the eve of a major anti-drug meeting with its heroin-producing neighbors.

Chinese police picked up more than 165,000 people in the first half of this 
year for drug offenses -- 28,000 of them on suspicion of producing or 
trafficking drugs, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
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