Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar's remote poppy fields, displaced farmer Aung Hla describes the narcotic crop as ...

For those displaced by relentless conflict in the world’s biggest producer of opium, poppy farming offers a fragile lifeline.

BEIJING: China on Friday (Feb 28) vowed to take "all necessary countermeasures" after United States President Donald Trump said he would impose an additional 10 per cent tariff on Chinese imports ...

Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid assembled from chemical precursors often produced in China, is only the latest opium-related flashpoint between China and Western nations, which fought two wars in the ...

In an interview with Fox News on Thursday, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio accused China of waging a "reverse" Opium War over fentanyl, suggesting that Beijing may be "deliberately" flooding ...

Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar's remote poppy fields, displaced farmer Aung Hla describes the narcotic crop as his only prospect in a country made barren by conflict. The 35-year-old ...

"If anyone were in my shoes, they would likely do the same." - Displaced and desperate - Myanmar's opium production was previously second only to Afghanistan, where poppy farming flourished ...