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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The opium story nears its end. Myanmar's Golden Triangle shiftsto synthetic drugs, pulling India into a deadlier input-output chain. Earlier, opium and heroin were pushed across Myanmar into the ...
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.
Frontier areas in Myanmar have historically been major areas for drug production, especially the region where its borders meet with those of Laos and Thailand, known as the Golden Triangle.
Over one million Rohingya, a Muslim minority from Myanmar, have fled military persecution fin multiple waves of displacement.
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 ...
Political developments of the past 6-7 years and factors like demonetisation, lockdown and the implementation of the GST were ...
A prominent Christian church leader and human rights advocate from Myanmar’s Kachin ethnic minority was detained by the authorities just hours after he was released from prison under an amnesty ...