Prices for opium in Afghanistan have increased tenfold since the de facto authorities imposed a drug ban in 2022 following ...

Opium cultivation and production in Myanmar decreased slightly between 2023 and 2024 ... we wouldn't plant any poppy fields ...

In Afghanistan, the price of opium has increased tenfold since the ban on poppy cultivation. The sharp rise in prices could ...

For farmers displaced by conflict, the hardy poppy is the only thing that keeps them from starving. Read more at straitstimes ...

With this, the number of total drug smugglers arrested has reached 2,231. The operation is being conducted on the directions ...

The country's opiate economy — including the value of domestic consumption as well as exports abroad — is estimated to be ...

The opium trade cost the lives and livelihoods of millions, both the Chinese who succumbed to addiction, and the Indians who suffered and died supplying the demand. Meanwhile, there was a new ...

Opium cultivation and production in Myanmar decreased ... Aung Hla agreed. With the war, he said, "we don't have any choice." ...

China’s Foreign Ministry has slightly walked back its war talk but let’s not kid ourselves – of course Beijing is preparing for war with America.

After the 2021 coup, Myanmar overtook Afghanistan with a production worth between US$ 589 million and US$ 1.57 billion. The ...