In 2023, the opium trade in Myanmar expanded for a third consecutive year, increasing 36% compared to 2022 production. The “entire opiate economy” in Myanmar is now worth between $1 billion ...

BANGKOK--The production of opium in Myanmar has flourished since the military’s seizure of power, with the cultivation of poppies up by a third in the past year as eradication efforts have ...

The violent political turmoil in Myanmar has contributed to the opium production increase. “The economic, security and governance disruptions that followed the military takeover of February 2021 ...

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 ...

Myanmar became the world's biggest opium producer in 2023, overtaking Afghanistan after the Taliban government launched a crackdown on the crop there - Copyright AFP ...

Bangkok (AsiaNews) – Myanmar’s ongoing civil war is fuelling opium production to fund the parties to the conflict as well as meet local demand. Available data show the extent of the boom ...

The destruction 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.

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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.

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

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 ...