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Supply and demand
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 22/09/2017
» During the era of the Raj, India was the leading poppy grower. It was sold worldwide as a treatment for hysteria in women and hyperactivity in children. Only China refused to have anything to do with it because it was addictive, but two opium wars taught them how to take it.
Kicking the habit
Asia focus, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 26/10/2015
» Myanmar still faces big challenges in the area of narcotics control, and while a ceasefire agreement with some ethnic groups might set a positive tone, collaboration to control precursor chemicals on its western border remains weak.
Profits from drug trade help fuel Myanmar's boom
Published on 06/06/2015
» YANGON — Visitors flying into this buzzing tropical metropolis step into a modern glass-and-steel airport that symbolises both Myanmar's aspirations to rejoin the wider world after years of isolation and the country's troubled past.
Lo Hsing Han: the life and crimes of Asia's heroin king
Spectrum, Alan Dawson, Published on 21/07/2013
» Lo Hsing Han, who was buried in Yangon last week, led three exciting lives in his 80 or so years.
Opium Warlord Lo Hsing Han dies
Associated Press, Published on 07/07/2013
» YANGON - A former drug kingpin and business tycoon known as the original Opium Warlord has died in his home in Myanmar's main city, a source close to the family said Sunday.
ONCB posts bounty on Yi Sae
Sunthon Pongpao, Published on 07/07/2013
» AYUTTHAYA - The Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) has set a five-million-baht bounty on Chaiwat Pornsakulpaisal, or Lt Col Yi Sae, and is tapping all venues to get the drug kingpin to Thailand.
As seen through the lens of an insider
Spectrum, Ezra Kyrill Erker, Published on 16/09/2012
» Over the course of 25 years covering Myanmar and Southeast Asia as a photojournalist, Thierry Falise has come under fire from Lao militia, been hit by shrapnel covering riots in Bangkok and come face to face with a diminutive follower of the 10-year-old twins commanding God's Army who would stand on a chair to beat his wife.
The Dragon Lady?
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 07/05/2012
» First ladies _ wives of presidents and prime ministers _ have generally been innocuous. On display during election time, they then faded into the background. Few made a name for themselves afterwards, most notably Hillary Rodham Clinton, appointed secretary of state when her husband was no longer in the White House.