That harvest made Myanmar the world's biggest producer of opium poppy in 2023 after production in Afghanistan slumped to around 330 tonnes following the Taliban government's ban on poppy cultivation.
Will the CSTO, Russia’s Answer to NATO, Expand? The military says it stepping up its fight against narcotics, without reckoning with its own role in the recent boom in production. Myanmar’s ...
Now only 14% of Myanmar’s territory and 33% of its population, mostly in cities, are under stable junta control, according to ...
Conflict-ravaged Myanmar is “facing challenges” in stemming opium poppy cultivation, the junta said on Wednesday, months after the United Nations said the country had become the world’s ...
Myanmar has become a crime capital of Southeast Asia, Indonesia has warned in a scathing critique of the ruling military ...
VIENNA, June 26 (Reuters) - The Taliban-ordered crash in opium production in Afghanistan, long the world's dominant supplier, could drive up overdose deaths as heroin users switch to synthetic ...
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Crime empires embedded in Asia’s “Golden Triangle” border areas are getting richer and more powerful, blurring the lines between the illicit economy and the legitimate one as they diversify ...
Although opium production in Myanmar increased by 36 per cent last year, it still fell globally by 75 per cent, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said in its annual World Drug ...
UN Warns of Overdose Deaths After Afghan Opium Production Plummets VIENNA (Reuters) - The Taliban-ordered crash in opium production in Afghanistan, long the world's dominant supplier, could drive ...