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 ...
BANGKOK--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 ...
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 ...
BANGKOK--Myanmar, already wracked by a brutal civil war, has regained the unenviable title of the world’s biggest opium producer, according to a U.N. agency report released Tuesday. The ...
Over one million Rohingya, a Muslim minority from Myanmar, have fled military persecution fin multiple waves of displacement.
Authorities in Myanmar have destroyed drugs worth more than 446 million dollars (£350 million) seized from around the country to mark an annual international anti-drug trafficking day, police said.
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A prominent Christian church leader and human rights advocate from Myanmar’s Kachin ethnic minority has been detained by the ...
BANGKOK (AP) — The authorities in Myanmar destroyed more than $446 million worth of illegal drugs seized from around the country to mark an annual international anti-drug trafficking day on ...
Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile Myanmar's escalating conflict and worst violence since the military takeover in 2021 are having a devastating impact on ...
Myanmar became the world's biggest producer of opium in 2023, overtaking Afghanistan after the Taliban government's crackdown ...
Myanmar's Worst Violence Since the Military Takeover Is Intensifying the Crisis, the UN Says UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Myanmar's escalating conflict and worst violence since the military takeover in ...