Singapore Black Market Value: $0.1742 Billion ($174.2 Million)
World Average: $15.54 Billion
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Data on Singapore
Arrests of drug abusers in Singapore
In 2009, 1,876 drug abusers were arrested in Singapore, slightly down from the 1,925 people arrested in 2008.
1,079 people, or 60 percent of those arrest in 2009 were using heroin, up from the 46 percent arrested in 2008.
Source: Jessica Lim, “Heroin abuse on the rise,” Straits Times, February 3, 2010.
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- Tags: drug abuse, Singapore | February 3rd, 2010
350,000 pirated movies downloaded per month in Singapore
Each month, around 350,000 movies are illegally downloaded in Singapore, which gives the country one of the highest rate of piracy on a per capita basis in the Asia region.
Source: Konrad Foo, “S’pore mulls ‘three-strikes’ law against piracy,” ZD Net Asia, August 19, 2009.
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- Tags: movie piracy, Singapore | August 19th, 2009
Price of Marijuana in Asia
Price is in US Dollars and represents the typical price of Marijuana in Asia.
| Country | Wholesale Price (per kilogram |
Retail Price (per gram) |
| Afghanistan | 56 | NA |
| Australia | 6,112.8 | 20.9 |
| Bangladesh | 29.3 | 0.2 |
| China | NA | 0.8 |
| Hong Kong | 1,833.5 | 8.3 |
| India | 85 | NA |
| Indonesia | 244.9 | 0.2 |
| Japan | 16,997.2 | 51 |
| Laos | 14 | NA |
| Malaysia | 423 | NA |
| Myanmar | 130 | 0.2 |
| New Zealand | 6,071.4 | 16.5 |
| Philippines | 475 | 0.5 |
| Singapore | 2,527.7 | 22.2 |
| South Korea | 1,040 | 6.5 |
| Thailand | 217.2 | 1.4 |
Source: UNODC, “World Drug Report 2009: Section 3.4 Prices, pages 215 to 234,” June 2009.
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- Tags: Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, Burma/Myanmar, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Marijuana Black Market, New Zealand, Philippines, prices, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand | June 26th, 2009
Price of Methamphetamines in Asia
Prices are in US Dollars and represent the typical price of Methamphetamines in Asia.
| Country | Wholesale Price (per kilogram) |
Retail Price (per gram) |
| Cambodia | NA | 1.6 (per tablet) |
| China | 6,650 | 6 |
| Hong Kong | 23,987 | 56.4 |
| Indonesia | NA | 93.6 |
| Japan | 88,382 | 500 |
| Laos | 4,000 | 1 |
| Malaysia | 40,210 | 5.3 |
| Myanmar | 15,600 | 3.9 |
| Philippines | NA | 119.3 |
| Singapore | 119,760 | 166.7 |
| South Korea | 14,118 | 705.9 |
| Thailand | NA | 83.3 |
Source: UNODC, “World Drug Report 2009: Section 3.4 Prices, pages 215 to 234,” June 2009.
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- Tags: Burma/Myanmar, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, methamphetamines, Philippines, prices, Singapore, Thailand | June 26th, 2009
Price of Heroin in Asia
Prices are in US Dollars and represent the typical price of Heroin in Asia.
| Country | Wholesale Price (per kilogram) |
Retail Price (per gram) |
| Afghanistan | 2,405 | 2.4 |
| Australia | 22,303.6 | 376.8 |
| China | NA | 36.2 |
| Hong Kong | 47,526.4 | 36.2 |
| India | 6,100 | 10.9 |
| Indonesia | 93,560 | 93.6 |
| Japan | 42,000 | 255 |
| Laos | 12,000 | NA |
| Macau | NA | 50 |
| Malaysia (No.4) | 14,645 | NA |
| Myanmar | NA | 34 |
| Nepal (No.4) | 22,653 | 22.7 |
| New Zealand | NA | 1,283.6 |
| Pakistan (No.4) | 4,158.8 | 4.2 |
| Philippines | 108,794.2 | 108.8 |
| Singapore | 17,737.9 | 133 |
| Thailand | 13,029.5 | 105 |
| Vietnam | 16,000 | NA |
Source: UNODC, “World Drug Report 2009: Section 3.4 Prices, pages 215 to 234,” June 2009.
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- Tags: Afghanistan, Australia, Burma/Myanmar, China, heroin, India, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, prices, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam | June 26th, 2009
One day in jail for attempt to buy kidney in Singapore
A Singapore tycoon was sentenced to jail for one day for his attempt to illegally buy a kidney on the black market.
Retail tycoonTang Wee Sung was sentenced to one day in jail and fined S$17,000 ($11,813) by a Singapore court for trying to buy a kidney and lying about it in a case that’s forced lawmakers to rethink a ban on organ trading.
Tang’s “extreme ill health” was considered in sentencing the former head of CK Tang Ltd., one of the city-state’s oldest department store chains, District Judge Ng Peng Hong said today. Still, there was no suggestion Tang, 55, was driven to buying a kidney after failing to get a donated organ from a relative, or any indication he had approached family members for one, Ng said.
Tang was to pay a black market price of $300,000 for a kidney.
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- Tags: organ trafficking, Singapore | September 4th, 2008
212 Filipina human trafficking victims in Singapore in 2007
59 human trafficking victims were recorded in 2005.
125 victims were recorded in 2006.
212 recorded in 2007.
Source: Veronica Uy, “Trafficking of Filipinas in Singapore ‘unabated’-embassy,” Inquirer.net, April 28, 2008.
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- Tags: human trafficking, Philippines, Singapore | April 29th, 2008
