Afghanistan’s new rulers have intensified a nationwide crackdown on drugs and poppy farms ahead of the approaching harvest ...
Over one million Rohingya, a Muslim minority from Myanmar, have fled military persecution fin multiple waves of displacement.
Without heroin and meth, the state probably wouldn’t exist, and the Wa would be one more indigenous people preyed upon by ...
Frontier areas in Myanmar have historically been major areas for drug production, especially the region where its borders meet with those of Laos and Thailand, known as the Golden Triangle. Opium ...
This article analyses how families and communities in Shan State, Myanmar, have responded to rising youth drug use, and the impacts that these responses have on young people. It first examines the ...
It marks the three-way border between Thailand, Myanmar and Laos, and the virtual centre point of one of the world’s main opium-producing regions, an area that America’s Drug Enforcement ...
Myanmar’s military staged a coup in 2021, strangling democratic reforms and jailing much of the country’s civilian leadership. Three years on, the Southeast Asian nation is teetering on the ...
BANGKOK (AP) — A prominent Christian church leader and human rights advocate from Myanmar’s Kachin ethnic minority was detained by the authorities just hours after he was released from prison ...