The other flows from opium trafficking supported by the Taliban, which use the proceeds to fund attacks on Western troops. Only recently has the Afghan government seemed to take stock of the ...

In Amitav Ghosh's acclaimed novel, Sea of Poppies, a village woman from an opium-producing region in India has a vivid encounter with a poppy seed. "She looked at the seed as if she has never seen ...

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.

We are in receipt of inquiries in regard to the cultivation of poppies, and the manufacture of opium ; it having been suggested by certain agricultural journals that there are various parts of the ...

File photo of man working in a poppy field in Myanmar's Shan state The production of opium increased sharply in Myanmar, rising to a nine-year high, according to the UN. It touched nearly 795 ...

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 ...

The patriarch of a powerful family, his Tata Group put an indelible stamp on Indian life while acquiring British brand names ...

The relatively unknown story of wartime Japan ’ s ties with the opium trade in China is now in the public domain, courtesy of a manga series that has already sold more than 1.8 million copies in ...

Some form of food, whether from land or sea, is always abundant and in surplus. History: This was the first region to feel the impact of the West through the Opium War and "Treaty Ports" of the ...

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DRI seized 9.69 kg of opium and arrested four suspects linked to a narcotics network transporting drugs from Madhya Pradesh to Mumbai. MUMBAI: The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI ...

As yet this has had surprisingly little impact on global opium and heroin markets. When the Taliban announced their ban on drugs in April 2022, farmers were cultivating around 220,000 hectares of ...