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

resembling a 'reverse' scenario of the Opium Wars in the mid-1800s that weakened China's global position, according to a report from Radio Free Asia (RFA). The Tribune, now published from ...

Opium cultivation and production in Myanmar decreased slightly between 2023 and 2024 ... we wouldn't plant any poppy fields even if we were asked to," says farmer Shwe Khine, 43. Aung Hla agreed. With ...

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

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

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

Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar's remote poppy fields, displaced farmer Aung Hla describes the narcotic crop as his only prospect in a country made barren by conflict. The 35-year ...