Opium cultivation and production in Myanmar decreased slightly ... 43. Aung Hla agreed. With the war, he said, "we don't have ...

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

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

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 ...