KUALA LUMPUR, May 8 — The police have detained 14 men in Selangor, Kuala Lumpur, and Penang as part of coordinated operations targeting the illegal production and distribution of ketum leaves and water.

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 18 — The police have arrested 11 local men for suspected involvement intrafficking ketum leaves around the capital following a raid on a store in Taman Tan Yew Lai on Tuesday (November 12).

SUNGAI BULOH, Oct 8 — Police have dismantled a ketum production and distribution organisation fronting as a landscape company in raids at a village here.

JAKARTA, June 20 — Indonesia has said it would start regulating the cultivation and export of kratom or ketum, a substance that advocates say can help ease pain alongside other benefits, but is listed in the United States (US) as a drug of concern.

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 23 — Four policemen were arrested on January 19 for allegedly extorting a ketum water dealer in Taman Desa Gombak in November last year.

PETALING JAYA, 17 Feb — Having been arrested and fined several times for selling ketum water was not enough for a 30-year-old man who was arrested for the fourth time when the police raided a house in Taman Medan here, last Wednesday.

KOTA BHARU, Jan 30 — The Ministry of Plantation Industries and Commodities is looking at the medicinal potential of cannabis and ketum plants, says Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Fadillah Yusof.

KUANTAN, Nov 30 — Police seized ketum leaves estimated to weigh 243 kilogrammes and arrested a local man during a raid on a car at Kilometre 63 of the Kuala Lumpur - Karak Highway in Bentong, early yesterday.

PUTRAJAYA, Oct 6 — Some form of organised control mechanism needs to be conceived first for those studying the proposed industrialisation of cannabis and ketum, said Home Minister Datuk Seri Hamzah Zainudin.

JOHOR BAHRU, Oct 3 — Police arrested a 19-year-old male and seized seven packages containing 201 kg of ketum leaves in Taman Istimewa, here, today.

KUALA LUMPUR, July 21 — The main committee for the development of the cannabis and ketum industry has been set up to look at the latest evidence on the use of the substances, especially for medical purposes, says Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin.

KUALA LUMPUR, May 19 — A group of five friends, who included a 14-year-old girl, were arrested in raids conducted in the past two days for alleged involvement in drug trafficking activities in the Klang Valley.

PUTRAJAYA, Mei 17 — The Ministry of Communications and Multimedia (K-KOMM) will organise information programmes to reduce the public stigma against ketum and hemp when the cultivation procedure is finalised, Deputy Minister Datuk Zahidi Zainul Abidin said.

KUALA LUMPUR, April 26 — Some Acts and procedures need to be amended if the government wants to allow the cultivation of ketum and hemp in the country, says Bukit Aman Narcotics Crime Investigation Department director Datuk Ayob Khan Mydin Pitchay.

KUALA NERANG, Nov 18 — Police arrested four men, including a Thai national, and seized 13 sacks containing ketum leaves weighing 379 kg at a rubber plantation in Durian Burung, near here, on Monday.