According to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), drug trafficking syndicates in Southeast and East Asia are using new smuggling routes to transport large quantities of methamphetamine and other drugs throughout the region. The UNODC’s latest report on synthetic drugs in the two regions revealed that almost 151 tonnes of methamphetamine and a record 27.4 tonnes of ketamine were seized in Southeast and East Asia in 2022. The report also noted that drug trafficking syndicates are becoming more diverse, and the Golden Triangle region, where the borders of northern Thailand, Myanmar, and Laos meet, is a largely lawless area where organised crime groups have moved considerable amounts of crystal methamphetamine through the central region of military-controlled Myanmar to the Andaman Sea. The UNODC warned that while the Golden Triangle and Myanmar’s Shan state continue to be a centre of synthetic drug production and opium cultivation in the region, organised crime gangs are also setting up new production centres elsewhere, such as Cambodia.