Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar's remote poppy fields, displaced farmer Aung Hla describes the narcotic crop as ...
Chandigarh: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Punjab, senior leader and finance minister Harpal Cheema on Thursday said that so far, ...
Punjab Finance Minister Harpal Singh Cheema on Thursday said the ongoing ‘War Against Drugs’ campaign has got encouraging ...
Caught between conflict and survival, Myanmar’s displaced communities are turning to poppy farming, fueling a booming opium trade in the war-torn nation.
The country's opiate economy — including the value of domestic consumption as well as exports abroad — is estimated to be ...
After the 2021 coup, Myanmar overtook Afghanistan with a production worth between US$ 589 million and US$ 1.57 billion. The ...
Opium cultivation and production in Myanmar decreased ... Aung Hla agreed. With the war, he said, “we don’t have any choice”. A research project funded by the Turner Kirk Trust has increased ...
PEKON, Myanmar – 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 ...