Southern Shan State, Myanmar – Tian Win Nang squats on the hard-packed earth, balancing a kilogramme (2.2 pounds) of ...

Afghanistan's farmers are rushing to replant their fields with the base ingredient of opium after the country reaped its biggest poppy harvest ever last May. That harvest produced a staggering 5 500 ...

this year is good and we are busy harvesting the crop,” another farmer told Rudaw, adding that they have buyers coming from Tehran, Isfahan, Mashhad, and Shiraz. The opium poppy (Papaver ...

Although fewer people are dying from drug overdoses, many still inject fentanyl and other drugs. We need programs to educate ...

Despite some Western political forces continuing to run smear campaigns against Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous ...

For a long time, people have made the derogatory word mofiz synonymous with the residents of the Rangpur region.

It may be sown in hills sufficiently wide apart to admit of cultivation, and harvesting the opium as the Capsules mature. Experiment alone will suffice to determine what soils and what section if ...

Early "shockumentary", apparently shot in Egypt, which documents the habits of opium addicts. The interiors of drug dens are shown, and at the conclusion the film an addict is shown collapsing on ...

As with most of northern Thailand’s Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) settlements, the village of Arunothai was only given a Thai name once the Thai government began in the 1970s to assert control over ...

US-based yoghurt and creamers maker Chobani has bought local frozen-foods business Daily Harvest. In a joint statement sent to Just Food, the companies said the deal, struck for an undisclosed sum ...