Myanmar's economy has deteriorated since the coup, with the kyat currency falling against the dollar and food and fuel prices skyrocketing. "Without alternatives and economic stability, it is likely ...
The United Nations anti-drug agency is warning that the huge trade in illegal drugs such as methamphetamine from Southeast ...
Asian drug trafficking networks are increasingly using sea routes to smuggle methamphetamines out of Myanmar and ramping up ...
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 reported Friday that Asian drug trafficking networks are increasingly utilizing sea routes to smuggle ...
BANGKOK >> The huge trade in methamphetamine and other illegal drugs originating from a small corner of Southeast Asia shows ...
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 ...
The United States is losing the New Opium War with China ... "China is the lead nation for the production of precursor chemicals used to make fentanyl and the Chinese chemical industry is the ...
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 ...
Asian drug trafficking networks are increasingly using sea routes to smuggle methamphetamines out of Myanmar and ramping up ...
Asian drug trafficking networks are increasingly using sea routes to smuggle methamphetamines out of Myanmar and ramping up ...
Meth from coup-hit Myanmar’s northeastern Shan state — the regional epicentre for the drug’s production — is being smuggled ...
