In the early 19th century, British merchants wanted to sell Indian-grown opium in China, while Chinese officials attempted to crack down on this illegal trade. Rather than aiming to constrain the ...

Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar's remote ... all vie for control of local resources and the lucrative drug trade. Aung Naing says poppy earns only a slightly higher profit than ...

According to the UNODC Afghanistan Opium Survey 2019, opium harvesting provided the equivalent of up to 119,000 full-time ...

Recent research has uncovered the dark side of Manchukuo and the huge influence played by opium and poppy farming in Manchuria. The Asahi Shimbun Digital website has collaborated with Kodansha Ltd ...

In interviews with drug-war figures ranging from opium farmers to U.S. officials, Cowell unravels the complex political, economic, and diplomatic web that surrounds the heroin business.

PRESENTER:'The key to the opium trade was British control of India, 'where the opium was grown. PRESENTER:'The East India Company bought raw cotton from India 'and then sold it back to them as ...

The relatively unknown story of wartime Japan’s ties with the opium trade in China is now in the public domain, courtesy of a manga series that has already sold more than 1.8 million copies in ...

Moreover, even if the Taliban regime claims otherwise, there is still no evidence that it is trying to stop the trade in opium as well. In the large opium markets in Musa Qala and Kandahar ...