Chinese' – Asia’s largest Mega Plant of Illegal drugs found in Parañaque

"This is a drug-free workplace. Let's keep it this way."

The Philippines has been ranked for the largest source for Illegal drugs [methamphetamine hydrochloride or "shabu"] in Asia; the recent discovery will prove that the mega plant of Chinese drug syndicates operates the largest ever found drug manufacturing  in the Philippines.

The warehouse is allegedly being rented by a Chinese businessman identified as Tam Cheuk Kwan for ₱400,000 a month which operating started January 2011.

For more than 1 year operation with a capacity of ₱2 Billion Peso monthly production; the newly found mega plant have destructed thousands of human lives not just in Asia but also around the world.

Were its operators just imbued with a sense of humor or were they merely trying to put authorities off their scent?

Agents of the Southern Police District (SPD) and Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) on Wednesday raided a drug laboratory located under a warehouse in Parañaque City (Manila, Philippines) where a sign read: "This is a drug-free workplace. Let's keep it this way."

Policemen stumbled on Tuesday onto the warehouse—located in a compound at Kilometer 19, East Service Road in Barangay (village) San Martin de Porres, Parañaque City—when they responded to a report about a robbery on South Superhighway.

Aside from bagging three suspected thieves, the lawmen also discovered a facility for making methamphetamine hydrochloride or "shabu" in the basement of the abandoned warehouse.

"The police responded to a reported robbery incident but instead found … the abandoned shabu lab," Chief Superintendent Benito Estipona, SPD director, told reporters.

Armed with search and arrest warrants, PDEA and SPD agents returned on Wednesday to the compound.

To get to the basement, they went in through the backdoor of the sprawling 100-sq m  warehouse which contained a huge amount of litter, including  discarded paper towels, cardboard, wooden planks and tin cans.

Corridors led to the basement which was accessible only through a single door. Once inside, the policemen found a still undetermined number of drums containing what was believed to be unprocessed shabu.

They also discovered a number of "industry-grade" flasks, burners and other drug manufacturing equipment.

"These pieces of equipment could produce about 50 to 100 kilograms of shabu per week," said one of the PDEA members who asked not to be identified for lack of authority to speak to media about the operation.

Estipona said they were able to take the caretaker of the warehouse into custody.

Through the caretaker, the police learned that the warehouse used to store textiles and garments.

Estipona, however, said that they would also be going after the owner of the warehouse who was identified as Juanito Que.

Que reportedly leased the compound to one Annie Chua last year.

"We will be tracking these persons down. Definitely, they [should be held liable for this]," Estipona told reporters.

He added that it would probably take days for them to determine the value of the equipment and chemicals found at the warehouse.

Chinese businessman Tam Cheuk Kwan is now hiding from the Philippines authorities 

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World’s newest & stealthiest $3Billion USD destroyer will counter China in West Philippines

This file image released by Bath Iron Works shows a rendering of the DDG-1000 Zumwalt, the U.S. Navy's next-generation destroyer, which has been funded to be built at Bath Iron Works in Maine and at Northrop Grumman's shipyard in Pascagoula, Miss. (AP/Bath Iron Works)

A super-stealthy warship that could underpin the U.S. navy's China strategy will be able to sneak up on coastlines virtually undetected and pound targets with electromagnetic "railguns" right out of a sci-fi movie.

But at more than $3 billion a pop, critics say the new DDG-1000 destroyer sucks away funds that could be better used to bolster a thinly stretched conventional fleet. One outspoken admiral in China has scoffed that all it would take to sink the high-tech American ship is an armada of explosive-laden fishing boats.

With the first of the new ships set to be delivered in 2014, the stealth destroyer is being heavily promoted by the Pentagon as the most advanced destroyer in history -- a silver bullet of stealth. It has been called a perfect fit for what Washington now considers the most strategically important region in the world -- Asia and the Pacific.

Though it could come in handy elsewhere, like in the Gulf region, its ability to carry out missions both on the high seas and in shallows closer to shore is especially important in Asia because of the region's many island nations and China's long Pacific coast.

"With its stealth, incredibly capable sonar system, strike capability and lower manning requirements -- this is our future," Adm. Jonathan Greenert, chief of naval operations, said in April after visiting the shipyard in Maine where they are being built.

On a visit to a major regional security conference in Singapore that ended Sunday, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said the Navy will be deploying 60 percent of its fleet worldwide to the Pacific by 2020, and though he didn't cite the stealth destroyers he said new high-tech ships will be a big part of its shift.

The DDG-1000 and other stealth destroyers of the Zumwalt class feature a wave-piercing hull that leaves almost no wake, electric drive propulsion and advanced sonar and missiles. They are longer and heavier than existing destroyers -- but will have half the crew because of automated systems and appear to be little more than a small fishing boat on enemy radar.

Down the road, the ship is to be equipped with an electromagnetic railgun, which uses a magnetic field and electric current to fire a projectile at several times the speed of sound.

But cost overruns and technical delays have left many defense experts wondering if the whole endeavor was too focused on futuristic technologies for its own good.

They point to the problem-ridden F-22 stealth jet fighter, which was hailed as the most advanced fighter ever built but was cut short because of prohibitive costs. Its successor, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, has swelled up into the most expensive procurement program in Defense Department history.

"Whether the Navy can afford to buy many DDG-1000s must be balanced against the need for over 300 surface ships to fulfill the various missions that confront it," said Dean Cheng, a China expert with the Heritage Foundation, a conservative research institute in Washington. "Buying hyperexpensive ships hurts that ability, but buying ships that can't do the job, or worse can't survive in the face of the enemy, is even more irresponsible."

The Navy says it's money well spent. The rise of China has been cited as the best reason for keeping the revolutionary ship afloat, although the specifics of where it will be deployed have yet to be announced. Navy officials also say the technologies developed for the ship will inevitably be used in other vessels in the decades ahead.

But the destroyers' $3.1 billion price tag, which is about twice the cost of the current destroyers and balloons to $7 billion each when research and development is added in, nearly sank it in Congress. Though the Navy originally wanted 32 of them, that was cut to 24, then seven.

Now, just three are in the works.

"Costs spiraled -- surprise, surprise -- and the program basically fell in on itself," said Richard Bitzinger, a security expert at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University. "The DDG-1000 was a nice idea for a new modernistic surface combatant, but it contained too many unproven, disruptive technologies."

The U.S. Defense Department is concerned that China is modernizing its navy with a near-term goal of stopping or delaying U.S. intervention in conflicts over disputed territory in the South China Sea or involving Taiwan, which China considers a renegade province.

China is now working on building up a credible aircraft carrier capability and developing missiles and submarines that could deny American ships access to crucial sea lanes.

The U.S. has a big advantage on the high seas, but improvements in China's navy could make it harder for U.S. ships to fight in shallower waters, called littorals. The stealth destroyers designed to do both. In the meantime, the Navy will begin deploying smaller Littoral Combat Ships to Singapore later this year.

Officially, China has been quiet on the possible addition of the destroyers to Asian waters.

But Rear Adm. Zhang Zhaozhong, an outspoken commentator affiliated with China's National Defense University, scoffed at the hype surrounding the ship, saying that despite its high-tech design it could be overwhelmed by a swarm of fishing boats laden with explosives. If enough boats were mobilized some could get through to blow a hole in its hull, he said.

"It would be a goner," he said recently on state broadcaster CCTV's military channel.

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