Asian drug trafficking networks are increasingly using sea routes to smuggle methamphetamines out of Myanmar and ramping up ...

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 ...

The huge trade in methamphetamine and other illegal drugs originating from a small corner of Southeast Asia shows no signs of ...

A new book explores the controversial life of a Kokang legend who pioneered the opium trade in the Golden Triangle and played ...

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 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 ...

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.

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 ...

Asian drug trafficking networks are increasingly using sea routes to smuggle methamphetamines out of Myanmar and ramping up ...

Asian drug trafficking networks are increasingly using sea routes to smuggle methamphetamines out of Myanmar and ramping up ...

The border region between Myanmar, Laos and Thailand has long been a hotbed of illegal drug production and trafficking, ...