The Myanmar authorities seized nearly one million tablets of stimulant in June in connection with 230 narcotic-drug-related cases, the official newspaper New Light of Myanmar reported Thursday.

The stimulants confiscated by the armed forces, police force and the customs department during the month were 300,000 tablets more than in May.

Other seizures included 25.43 kg heroin, 928.7 kg opium, 5.1 kg morphine, 6.9 kg marijuana, 545.4 kg caffeine and 380 kg ephedrine as well as 1,000 liters acetic anhydride and 366 liters chemical liquid, the report said. And 369 drug offenders including 65 women were punished in June.

According to official statistics, the Myanmar authorities exposed a total of 4,218 narcotics cases from January 2005 to May 2006 with altogether 6,574 drug offenders including 1,236 women being charged.

Seizure by drug enforcement agencies during the period included 940.54 kg of heroin, 1,250 kg of opium, 1,228.3 kg of ephedrine and 141.52 kg of marijuana as well as 18.92 million tablets of amphetamine stimulant.

Besides, 11 heroin refineries in northern and southern Shan state were overrun during the period and 4,151.18 hectares of poppy cultivation were destroyed during 2005-06 poppy growing season, 165.86 hectares more than 2004-05, the figures show.

Meanwhile, at a ceremony held last weekend in Laikha, southern part of Shan state, Myanmar destroyed 47 million U.S. dollars worth of drugs seized in a series of anti-drug operations in the state early this year. The authorities burned over 1.4 tons of narcotic drugs including 0.05 kg of heroin and 229.28 kg of opium, 47,286 amphetamine-type stimulant tablets, and 29,519 kg of opium seeds, while destroying 2,991 liters of liquid-form drugs.

Earlier this year, Myanmar also burned confiscated drugs on two occasions. In Kengtung in April, a large amount of narcotic drugs including 54 kg of heroin, 74 kg of opium and 1,000 kg of brown opium were put on fire, while in Yangon in June, 1.65 tons of drugs, valued at 148.4 million dollars and included 169.7 kg of heroin, 690.6 kg of opium and 80.9 kg of marijuana as well as 2.1 million tablets of amphetamine stimulants, 5,308 tablets of ecstasy and 101.74 kg of ice, a crystal form of amphetamine-type stimulant were destroyed.

Myanmar has been implementing a 15-year plan (1999-2000 to 2013- 14) to totally eradicate poppy in three phases each running for five years and it is now in the second phase.