A crackdown on 27 drug-dealing networks nationwide has resulted in 734 arrests and the confiscation of a huge amount of illicit drugs, Deputy Police Chief Pol Gen Chalermkiat Sriworakhan announced on Tuesday.

SEEMINGLY innocent phone conversations or texts between inmates and others - such as “Do you have hens?”, “I want five hens”, and “I want 10 eggs sent to me via my relative” - have been used as encrypted orders for illicit drugs, according to Nation TV 22