A new book explores the controversial life of a Kokang legend who pioneered the opium trade in the Golden Triangle and played ...
This tin full of opium sells for $4 (£2.5) in Myanmar's northern Chin state By the end of this year Myanmar should have been free of narcotics. Instead, production of opium is soaring and the ...
This often forces rural peoples into poverty or drives villagers to new, more remote areas ripe for opium production. The UN and China have introduced crop substitution as a solution in Myanmar ...
The United Nations says the production of opium in Myanmar has flourished since the military seized power in 2021, with the cultivation of poppies up by a third in the past year as eradication ...
The states of the Golden Triangle, China, Myanmar, Thailand ... Afghanistan itself played a minor role in opium production until it was banned in the 1970s in nearby Turkey, Iran, and Pakistan.
The United Nations says the production of opium in Myanmar has flourished since the military seized power in 2021, with the cultivation of poppies up by a third in the past year as eradication ...
The United Nations says the production of opium in Myanmar has flourished since the military seized power in 2021, with the cultivation of poppies up by a third in the past year as eradication ...
Shan State has “long been a centre of conflict and illicit drug production”, especially “in safe havens… held by militias and other paramilitary units allied with the Myanmar military”.
Four substances in particular came to have widespread usage around the world: alcohol, caffeine, nicotine and opium. Each has been used widely as a recreational drug – that is, one taken ...
Income from opium production, estimated at between $1.8 billion and $2.7 billion, made up 12-14 percent of Afghanistan's gross domestic product in 2021. 3 The Taliban has been under pressure from ...
His family – all 11 of them – had huddled together in their house in Sittwe, on the coast of Myanmar’s Rakhine state, as ferocious winds intensified overhead. “When the water started to ...
Residents of Myanmar's cyclone-ravaged Rakhine state capital queued ... Residents in the Rakhine capital Sittwe queued for small tanks of drinking water after the cyclone stopped production at ...
