In a remote corner of Myanmar a line of farmers move through a field of nodding poppies, making small cuts in the ...
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 the ...
Jeremy Douglas, the Regional Representative of the UNODC for Southeast Asia and the Pacific, explains: “In Shan State, Myanmar, there is the major production of heroin and opium, but also synthetic ...
The European Drug Monitoring Center warns of the risk that synthetic opiates could make up for a hypothetical shortage of ...
With the country facing social and economic turmoil, opium production has become a vital source of income for struggling farmers. Myanmar, Opium, Opium Production, Heroin, Drug Trade, Farmers, Armed ...
The drug burn came as UN experts warned of increases in the production of opium, heroin and methamphetamine in Myanmar, with exports threatening to expand markets in South and South-East Asia.
Shan State has always been Myanmar's largest producer of opium Myanmar is now the world's largest producer of opium, overtaking Afghanistan, a UN report says. Its opium production this year is ...
Located in Laos but controlled by Thai companies, the plant burns lignite to generate energy exported to Thailand. Early ...
The drug burn came as U.N. experts warned of increases in the production of opium, heroin and methamphetamine in Myanmar, with exports threatening to expand markets in South and Southeast Asia.
In December last year, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said Myanmar is now the world’s largest opium producer, surpassing Afghanistan, where the Taliban imposed a ban on its production in ...
A Spanish media outlet has reported that the ban on poppy cultivation in Afghanistan has raised concerns over a reduction in ...
In return for the toleration of their heroin production ... own militia—pioneered a chain of opium laboratories and trucking lines linking Burma (now Myanmar) with markets worldwide.