{"id":20216,"date":"2026-08-24T06:15:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T06:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/24\/philippine-customs-seize-43-kg-meth-shipment-from-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T06:15:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T06:15:23","slug":"philippine-customs-seize-43-kg-meth-shipment-from-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/24\/philippine-customs-seize-43-kg-meth-shipment-from-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippine customs seize 43 kg of meth shipped from Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Philippine Bureau of Customs has announced that it discovered and seized about 43 kilograms of methamphetamine, known locally as &#8220;shisheh,&#8221; in a shipment sent from Afghanistan at the Manila International Container Port.<\/p>\n<p>According to Exos on Sunday, Aug. 23, the shipment was valued at nearly $5.1 million. Customs officials said the drugs were concealed in packages resembling talc stones and hidden among commercial goods.<\/p>\n<p>Officials from the Bureau of Customs and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency said laboratory tests confirmed the presence of methamphetamine hydrochloride in the shipment.<\/p>\n<p>Methamphetamine, or &#8220;shisheh,&#8221; is a stimulant and highly addictive drug that can cause serious physical and mental harm. The Manila International Container Port is one of the Philippines&#8217; most important trade gateways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philippine customs say they seized 43 kg of methamphetamine hidden in a shipment from Afghanistan at Manila port.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-security-incidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}