An early 20th century electric shock machine, a rare Oriental opium pipe and gold sovereign coins worth in total an estimated close to £30,000 are among items from the bishop’s house in Newry going ...

He also controlled imports into Surat, trading in items like opium, gold, coral ... the Red Sea, and Persian Gulf port cities. He had agents in the most important commercial hubs of India.

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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 ...

By VOA Persian FILE - Current and pre-revolution Iranian banknotes and foreign currencies are displayed by a vendor at a commercial district in downtown Tehran, Feb. 26, 2023. Share ...

Only the previous day, I had seen Fortune’s name in Lucy Inglis’s fascinating book Milk of Paradise: A History of Opium. I checked back and there was just this one reference to “the ...

Human Rights Watch, in its "World Report 2025," warned of the worsening human rights situation in Iran. Citing evidence and reports, the organization highlights intensified repression of women and ...

Photos / supplied The Mongol Chinese emperor Kublai Khan was immortalised by English poet Samuel Coleridge’s opium-fuelled descriptions of the “pleasure dome” at Xanadu, the imperial summer ...

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 ...