The opium is valued at $400,000, and was seized because of a violation of the custody rules, which provide that no Chinese shall import the drug. View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

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.

With an original story by Tsukasa Monma and artwork by Shikako, the work faithfully captures the way the Manchukuo authorities competed against illicit drug dealers in the market of opium.

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 ...

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).