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

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 ...

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 ...

The multi-layered issues behind the conflict are the local dynamics among the hill tribes and the Meiteis, the origin 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.

Officials from police and the Narcotics Control Board announced that the 1.2 metric tons (2,646 pounds) of the drug, also ...

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.

The United Nations says the production of opium in Myanmar has flourished since the military seized power in 2021, with the cultivation of poppies up by a third in the past year as eradication ...

Law enforcement officials in Thailand say they seized more than a ton of crystal methamphetamine in a southern province last ...

Lim, Jinhee and Kim, Taekyoon 2021. Bringing drugs into light: embedded governance and opium production in Myanmar’s Shan State. Oxford Development Studies, Vol. 49, Issue. 2, p. 105. Ghiabi, Maziyar ...

Income from opium production, estimated at between $1.8 billion and $2.7 billion, made up 12-14 percent of Afghanistan's gross domestic product in 2021. 3 The Taliban has been under pressure from ...

Myanmar is a major producer of methamphetamine, which over the past decade has become the dominant illegal drug in Southeast ...