The Myanmar authorities yesterday torched confiscated drugs to mark the United Nations' International Day Against Drug Abuse And Illicit Trafficking.

Stacks of opium, heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine tablets, worth an estimated US$385 million (S$535 million), were burnt in three ceremonies around the country.

In Thailand, the authorities incinerated some US$589 million worth of drugs, while Cambodia burned drugs worth US$4 million.

The destruction follows another year of record seizures of narcotics from the countries' borderlands.