"Police have captured three suspects and seized 151.22kg of drugs in a major cross-border drug trafficking case, local authorities said on Saturday (Feb 1). After receiving a tip-off that a drug gang was planning to transport drugs into China, police sent a task force to the China-Myanmar border city of Lincang in southwest China's Yunnan Province to investigate the case. On Jan 14, police caught three suspects in Lincang's Mengding Township, with methamphetamine weighing 151.22 kg seized from the bottom of a truck driven by a suspect. The suspects are under criminal detention. Further investigation is underway. ON a separate issue, a senior official from the Thai Ministry of Commerce have told reporters that he is worried that the continuing strong Thai baht currency will again affect Thailand's border trade with Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar. Last year, Thailand missed the target of cross-border trade volume due mainly to the baht appreciation; this year the baht has not weakened, said Keerati Rushchano, said director-general of the ministry's Foreign Trade Department. The border trade in 2019 totalled 1.33 trillion baht (US$43.1bil), a 3.43% drop, he added..."