For nearly a century, widespread Chinese addiction to opium destroyed millions of lives and ravaged a great nation. China’s ...

The acquiescence of China to unequal treaties imposed by European powers, for example, cannot be explained without reference to the British colonial conquest of India and the use of Indian opium ...

BANGKOK--There has been a slight drop in the production of opium in Myanmar, the world’s biggest source of the illicit drug from which heroin is derived, experts from the United Nations said ...

often referring to them as “spiritual opium”. This narrative frames gaming as a potential threat to the physical, mental and social wellbeing of young people. For many Chinese parents ...

Depth, Sreeparna Banerjee, Associate Research Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation (ORF), delves into the escalating ...

India was in a way a sort of staging post for Britain's various connections with China in the process of which India became the largest producer of opium in the world in the 18th and 19th centuries.

ZARANJ, Afghanistan, Jan. 4 (Xinhua) -- Units of counter-narcotics police have foiled attempts to smuggle some 1,000 kg of illicit drugs and objects used in manufacturing heroin in western Afghanistan ...

UN Drug Experts Say Opium Production Has Leveled off in Myanmar, but Instability May Trigger a Rise BANGKOK (AP) — There has been a slight drop in the production of opium in Myanmar, the world ...

The Myanmar Opium Survey 2024 issued by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime says that after three consecutive years of growth, the area where opium is cultivated fell by 4% to 45,200 ...