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China trains Myanmar police to fight drug menace
The month-long training course at Yunnan will also teach officials about the global anti-drug situation" and drug-testing methods.
China police are teaching Myanmar officials kung fu and Mandarin as part of training in how to crack down on drug trafficking, state media said on Tuesday.
The one-month training course, held at a police college in China's southern Yunnan province which borders Myanmar, will also teach officials about the "global anti-drug situation" and drug-testing methods, Xinhua news agency said.
"We really treasure this training opportunity in China and we will work hard here," Xinhua quoted captain Shwe Nyar Maung, a Myanmar official, as saying.
Xinhua said 160 Myanmar officials had been taught by the school.
China has become increasingly concerned about drugs flowing across the border from military-ruled Myanmar, which along with Thailand and Laos, is home to the lawless, opium-producing region, the "Golden Triangle".
In the lead-up to Monday's International Anti-Drug Day, China launched a major publicity campaign to raise concern about increasing levels of drug trafficking and championing a new crackdown.
Xinhua reported that China had executed four heroin traffickers on Monday for importing heroin. Last year, China arrested nearly 60,000 people for drugs offences, it said.
