YANGON, Myanmar - Opium cultivation in military-ruled Myanmar increased 33% last year, reversing a six-year downward trend, according to a United Nations report released Thursday. An official at the ...
Asian drug trafficking networks are increasingly using sea routes to smuggle methamphetamines out of Myanmar and ramping up ...
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 ...
The United Nations reported Friday that Asian drug trafficking networks are increasingly utilizing sea routes to smuggle ...
BANGKOK >> The huge trade in methamphetamine and other illegal drugs originating from a small corner of Southeast Asia shows ...
“There are 12 likely methamphetamine manufacturing sites in the Golden Triangle areas [where Myanmar ... effort to help farmers transition from opium production. But this will require time ...
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.
Chin State's opium production is miniscule compared to other plantations in Myanmar, the UNODC data shows. It produced 7.9 tonnes in 2021 and 13 tonnes in 2022, compared to Shan State that ...
The huge trade in methamphetamine and other illegal drugs originating from a small corner of Southeast Asia shows no signs of ...
Asian drug trafficking networks are increasingly using sea routes to smuggle methamphetamines out of Myanmar and ramping up ...
Meth from coup-hit Myanmar’s northeastern Shan state — the regional epicentre for the drug’s production — is being smuggled ...
Asian drug trafficking networks are increasingly using sea routes to smuggle methamphetamines out of Myanmar and ramping up ...
