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 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 dropped off and ...

Additionally, the Myanmar government is keen to show the ... The main constraint in opium production is the labor needed at harvest time. The price of hired hands limits the amount to which ...

The army has tightened security along the northern border following reports of greater quantities and varieties of illegal drugs flowing into the country from Myanmar, which is also said to harbouring ...

With the breakdown of rule of law in Myanmar’s Dry Zone, resistance groups are taking drug enforcement into their own hands, ...

Myanmar has the lowest profits from rice production compared to those achieved by farmers in Asia’s other rice bowls. In 2013-2014, the net margin/profit from producing monsoon rice paddy averaged ...

The Taliban did manage to crack down on drug production between 2000 and 2001, during their previous reign — reducing the opium harvest by more than 90 percent, according to a U.N. survey. But it came ...

Collectively, coffee and tea have been credited as catalysts for everything from the Enlightenment to the Opium Wars. Tracing the fascinating ... a plant native to the borderlands of north Myanmar and ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN)-- Afghanistan's opium production dropped dramatically this year partly because of new aggressive drug-fighting tactics in the country, a United Nations study found.