Myanmar has become the world’s biggest producer of opium, overtaking Afghanistan after the ruling Taliban imposed a ban on poppy cultivation, according to a new United Nations report. The ...

The violent political turmoil in Myanmar has contributed to the opium production increase. “The economic, security and governance disruptions that followed the military takeover of February 2021 ...

Afghanistan’s new rulers have intensified a nationwide crackdown on drugs and poppy farms ahead of the approaching harvest ...

NEW DELHI: Myanmar has become the world's largest producer of opium, surpassing Afghanistan, BBC reported. Opium production in Myanmar is estimated to increase by 36% to 1,080 tonnes, far ...

BANGKOK (AFP): Opium poppy production in Myanmar ramped up dramatically following the 2021 military coup, the UN's drugs office said Thursday (Jan 26), as political and economic turmoil drove ...

Over one million Rohingya, a Muslim minority from Myanmar, have fled military persecution fin multiple waves of displacement.

Without heroin and meth, the state probably wouldn’t exist, and the Wa would be one more indigenous people preyed upon by ...

The destruction came as UN experts warned of increases in the production of opium, heroin and methamphetamine in Myanmar, with exports threatening to expand markets in south and south-east Asia.

The drug burn came as U.N. experts warned of increases in the production of opium, heroin and methamphetamine in Myanmar, with exports threatening to expand markets in South and Southeast Asia.

The Myanmar government claims it has already halved opium production in the current poppy-growing season (from Oct/ Nov to Feb/March). "Poppy production is down by more than 50 per cent across all ...

Political developments of the past 6-7 years and factors like demonetisation, lockdown and the implementation of the GST were ...