The other flows from opium trafficking supported by the Taliban, which use the proceeds to fund attacks on Western troops. Only recently has the Afghan government seemed to take stock of the ...

FARAH, Afghanistan (Reuters) - In fields less than a 10 minute drive from the intelligence headquarters of Afghanistan's remote western province of Farah, farmers are planting their first illegal ...

PROF. ZHENG YANGWEN:That the Chinese were buying a little bit of opium every time, and that number was increasing. PRESENTER:'The key to the opium trade was British control of India, 'where the ...

A bumper crop of opium poppies in Afghanistan ...

Recent tests go far to show that the quality of the opium raised in several sections of the country is good. The editor of the American Journal of Pharmacy has made an assay of some laudanum made ...

One product that the British could access in large quantities was opium grown in territories under their colonial control. The British response to address the trade imbalance was to flood the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two suspected drug smugglers were arrested in Udham Singh Nagar district with 2.5 kg of opium worth Rs 25 lakh. The operation ...

Opium Hum aka Michail Stangl nourishes his DJ sets via sombre, hazy drones and fantastical soundscapes permeated by deep and shifting rhythms to create what can only be called a waking dream. Arriving ...