Kuala Lampur, Sept. 15 -- "We have to work together as these syndicates know no borders and work under the assumption that the agencies of each country work separately," said Malaysia's newly minted Director of the Federal Narcotics Crime Investigation Department (NCID), Datuk Hussein Omar Khan, while unveiling his aspirations to tackle "worrying drug trends" in Malaysia last week.

Let's talk about it then. Parliament data from August 2025 revealed that 68 Malaysians have been sentenced to death abroad for drug trafficking, with 26 of them in China and 23 of them in Indonesia, with the others spread across Brunei, Laos, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. In January 2025, Parliament also confirmed that there are 40 death row prisoners conv...