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 ...
A new book explores the controversial life of a Kokang legend who pioneered the opium trade in the Golden Triangle and played ...
It has been estimated that during this decade the opium production here increased by ... ‘the golden crescent’ on the borders of Myanmar, Laos and Thailand, began when the CIA stimulated ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
Since the 2021 Myanmar coup, there has been an uptick in junta-controlled opium production in the northern Chin state, which is connected to south Manipur. This is where an Assam Rifles commanding ...
BANGKOK (AP) — The production of opium in Myanmar has flourished since the military's seizure of power, with the cultivation of poppies up by a third in the past year as eradication efforts have ...
