The UNODC reports record production in 2023 with an 18 per cent increase in land under poppy cultivation. Civil war has led ...
PEKON, Myanmar - In a remote corner of Myanmar, a line of farmers move through a field of nodding poppies, making small cuts in the greenish-purple pods to release opium resin. The next morning ...
Myanmar became the world's biggest opium producer in 2023, overtaking Afghanistan after the Taliban government launched a crackdown on the crop there - Copyright AFP ...
For many farmers in conflict and coup-riven Myanmar, poppy farming has become their only way of making ends meet amid the social and economic turmoil across the country. The opium resin extracted from ...
The Mekong is seeing a surge in synthetic drug production and trafficking, compounded by increasing levels of opium ...
The rise of a multibillion dollar trafficking, drug, and scam industry marks a resurgence for the Golden Triangle as a global ...
In a remote corner of Myanmar a line of farmers move through a field of nodding poppies, making small cuts in the greenish-purple pods to release opium resin. The next morning they will collect ...
The next morning they will collect the residue that has seeped out overnight and parcel it up into bundles of sticky opium -- the building blocks for manufacturing heroin. Myanmar became the world ...
Don't miss out on the headlines from Breaking News. Followed categories will be added to My News. The next morning they will collect the residue that has seeped out overnight and parcel it up into ...
In a remote corner of Myanmar a line of farmers move through a field of nodding poppies, making small cuts in the greenish-purple pods to release opium resin. The next morning they will collect the ...