The country's opiate economy — including the value of domestic consumption as well as exports abroad — is estimated to be ...

Myanmar's embattled junta has boosted its ties with Russia, which has been a longtime military backer. Now that the junta's ...

Caught between conflict and survival, Myanmar's displaced communities are turning to poppy farming, fuelling a booming opium ...

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Following a request from the International Criminal Court (ICC), the Philippines arrested former President Rodrigo Duterte ...

But after the Taliban government launched a crackdown, Myanmar overtook Afghanistan as the world's biggest producer of opium in 2023, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).

A local resistance group fighting against the military government in Myanmar has acknowledged responsibility for the killing last week of a Buddhist monk and his disciple in the country’s eastern ...

Min Aung Hlaing's military uses weapons from Russia in the ongoing civil war against opposition groups across Myanmar.

But after the Taliban government launched a crackdown, Myanmar overtook Afghanistan as the world's biggest producer of opium in 2023, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).

Russia is not only complicit in the junta's war crimes and crimes against humanity against Myanmar people but also supporting to prolong the military tyranny in Myanmar," Khin Ohmar, a democracy ...

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