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BANGKOK — Just two years after Thailand became the first Southeast Asian country to decriminalise cannabis in 2022, it now plans to ban recreational use of the drug, creating uncertainty for the public, tourists, and a burgeoning industry.
TOKYO — Japanese authorities on Wednesday (March 27) ordered drugmaker Kobayashi Pharmaceutical to recall three dietary supplement products containing red yeast rice, or beni koji, after they were linked to two deaths.
Shares of Denmark's Zealand Pharma rocketed higher, after the company posted strong results from a trial of a liver disease treatment that has been touted as a potential competitor in the booming weight loss drug market.
In a jungle clearing deep inside Southeast Asia's opium-growing Golden Triangle, four young men light incense sticks and kneel to pray before a bronze statue of an imposing figure astride a horse.
Venom experts, however, have raised doubts about some of the claims – especially surrounding the substance’s supposed use as a rave drug.
Thailand’s government will urgently move a bill to ban the recreational use of cannabis, the health minister said on Tuesday, after the kingdom decriminalised the drug in 2022.
Arturo Lascanas said current Vice-President Sara Duterte-Carpio devised an operation, instructing law enforcement officials to abduct and bury drug suspects to portray them as kidnapping cases, when she was Davao mayor in 2012.
TOKYO -- Nikon has opened new bioimaging laboratories in Japan and the U.S., aiming to tap into increased demand for contract pharmaceutical research as it looks to double sales in the field by fiscal 2028 and develop health care into a new pillar of growth.