Burma’s reinvigorated ‘war on opium’ serves to distract from the fact that the methamphetamine trade is both a far greater problem, and one that Burmese troops and members of the government play a key role in
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Methamphetamine use 'rapidly' rising in Burma
Nov 27, 2009 (DVB), Figures released by the United Nations' drugs agency show that use of methamphetamine in Burma is on the rise, and is having an increasingly detrimental effect on neighbouring countries. A report released yesterday by the UN Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC) shows that use of 'amphetamine type substances' (ATS), more …
Kachin addiction crisis as clinics suggest majority of men using hard drugs since coup
Three heroin overdoses in Kachin State’s Ngwe Pyaw Sanpya village last week are indicative of wider regional trends, as local clinics claim drug use has become rampant in the absence of drug seizures and arrests. Most concerning, says Ja Kashin Tang Raw, director of the Ram Hkey Shalat rehabilitation center, is an increase in drug …
FROM THE DVB NEWSROOM
THE DAILY BRIEFING Friday, October 1, 2021 Burma’s National Unity Government (NUG) has sent a letter to the Chinese Communist Party on the occasion of the National Day of the People’s Republic of China, stating that the NUG government is ready to partner with China in promoting friendship. A letter sent by Union Prime Minister …
Change brewing in Burma's poppy country?
There’s been a steady decline in the cultivation of opium poppy in recent years.
From 2015 to 2017, the production of poppy has decreased from 54,000 hectares to 41,000 hectares, so what’s behind this trend. . .
The battle over Yangon’s Dala bridge
Bridges over major rivers can transform local, as well as national, economies. But not everyone is in favour of building a $168 million bridge linking the congested downtown of Yangon with the poor and rural township of Dala to the south.