Myanmar's economy has deteriorated since the coup, with the kyat currency falling against the dollar and food and fuel prices skyrocketing. "Without alternatives and economic stability, it is likely ...

The the United Nations Office of narcotics and Crime UNODC in Thailand reports the massive traffic in methamphetamine and ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 2005, the Taliban began to regroup and encouraged opium production in order to finance ... report being offered $2,000 to return to Myanmar – and threatened with beatings if they do not.

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

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.

The United States is losing the New Opium War with China ... "China is the lead nation for the production of precursor chemicals used to make fentanyl and the Chinese chemical industry is the ...

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 ...