One of the factors of the Manipur ethnic violence, among a multitude of social frictions, include loss of livelihoods of the ...
A new book explores the controversial life of a Kokang legend who pioneered the opium trade in the Golden Triangle and played ...
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 ...
A United Nations report published last year said opium cultivation has surged in Myanmar and Laos as high prices attract impoverished farmers to grow the illicit crop, particularly in conflict areas.
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 ...
Officials from police and the Narcotics Control Board announced that the 1.2 metric tons (2,646 pounds) of the drug, also ...
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.
Law enforcement officials in Thailand say they seized more than a ton of crystal methamphetamine in a southern province last ...
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 ...
Lim, Jinhee and Kim, Taekyoon 2021. Bringing drugs into light: embedded governance and opium production in Myanmar’s Shan State. Oxford Development Studies, Vol. 49, Issue. 2, p. 105. Ghiabi, Maziyar ...
TASS/. The volumes of opium production have been on the increase significantly this year in the southern regions of Afghanistan compared to previous seasons, TOLOnews reported on Monday.
Income from opium production, estimated at between $1.8 billion and $2.7 billion, made up 12-14 percent of Afghanistan's gross domestic product in 2021. 3 The Taliban has been under pressure from ...
