A new book explores the controversial life of a Kokang legend who pioneered the opium trade in the Golden Triangle and played ...
Myanmar’s overall illicit opiate economy ... according to the UN. The resurgence of opium production in the highlands of the Golden Triangle will reverberate all the way down to the “wider ...
This tin full of opium sells for $4 (£2.5) in Myanmar's northern Chin state By the end of this year Myanmar should have been free of narcotics. Instead, production of opium is soaring and the ...
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.
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 ...
The United Nations says the production of opium in Myanmar has flourished since the military seized power in 2021, with the cultivation of poppies up by a third in the past year as eradication ...
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.
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 ...
He said the United Nations is predicting that opium production in Afghanistan will ... Burma (also known as Myanmar) and Venezuela were singled out as having "failed demonstrably" to live up ...
Income from opium production, estimated at between $1.8 billion and $2.7 billion, made up 12-14 percent of Afghanistan's gross domestic product in 2021. 3 The Taliban has been under pressure from ...
Opium production provided about half of the Taliban insurgents' revenues in 2016, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). By 2020, the last full year of rule by the ...
He said the United Nations is predicting that opium production in Afghanistan will ... Burma (also known as Myanmar) and Venezuela were singled out as having "failed demonstrably" to live up ...
