THAILAND

Army boasts major crackdown on opium farms

Chinnawat Singha, Published on 27/08/2013

» Anti-narcotics authorities have eradicated more than 1,600 rai of opium poppy farmlands in the North over the past year, but recently discovered three major drug manufacturing hubs just a stone's throw away from the Thai border, posing major challenges in the ongoing fight against the illicit substance trade.