The UNODC reports record production in 2023 with an 18 per cent increase in land under poppy cultivation. Civil war has led ...
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 ...
PEKON, Myanmar - In a remote corner of Myanmar, a line of farmers move through a field of nodding poppies, making small cuts in the greenish-purple pods to release opium resin. The next morning ...
For many farmers in conflict and coup-riven Myanmar, poppy farming has become their only way of making ends meet amid the social and economic turmoil across the country. The opium resin extracted from ...
It all started with a Facebook ad. Rachel Yoong was bored and fed up at work when a job posting for a casino in the Myanmar capital Yangon popped up on her phone. The purported $4,500 monthly ...
In a remote corner of Myanmar a line of farmers move through a field of nodding poppies, making small cuts in the greenish-purple pods to release opium resin. The next morning they will collect ...
Bangkok (AsiaNews) – Myanmar’s ongoing civil war is fuelling opium production to fund the parties to the conflict as well as meet local demand. Available data show the extent of the boom ...
The rise of a multibillion dollar trafficking, drug, and scam industry marks a resurgence for the Golden Triangle as a global ...
The next morning they will collect the residue that has seeped out overnight and parcel it up into bundles of sticky opium -- the building blocks for manufacturing heroin. Myanmar became the world ...
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A burning pile of seized illegal drugs is seen during a destruction ceremony to mark the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking in Yangon, Myanmar, on June 26, 2023.