YANGON, Myanmar - Opium cultivation in military-ruled Myanmar increased 33% last year, reversing a six-year downward trend, according to a United Nations report released Thursday. An official at the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 huge trade in methamphetamine and other illegal drugs originating from a small corner of Southeast Asia shows no signs of ...
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 ...
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 ...
Meth from coup-hit Myanmar’s northeastern Shan state — the regional epicentre for the drug’s production — is being smuggled ...
