A “dramatic” drop in opium cultivation in Burma has underscored a regional boom in demand for illegal synthetic drugs such as methamphetamine, which many Asian countries are struggling to combat.
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At a remote farm about two hours away from Loikaw, capital of Karenni State, farmers scrape out raw opium from the poppies they’ve grown.
Opium production, long a problem in Kachin and Shan states, is now appearing in parts of Chin State affected by conflict on the Indian border.
The Kachin State based anti-narcotics vigilante group Pat Ja San began destroying poppy fields in eastern Myitkyina district on Tuesday, with the protection of a security detail.
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Tensions are high in Kachin state as members of anti-drug vigilante group Pat Ja San faced off with local opium farmers on Monday.
Poppy cultivation has rapidly expanded in the Burmese and Laos parts of the Golden Triangle, to feed new demands for heroin, chiefly in China, according to a report released Monday.
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The Chin National Front says that it will provide bags of rice to villagers affected by a drug eradication activity conducted in Tonzang Township and Cikha Sub-township in Chin State.
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Opium production in Burma increased 26 percent in 2013 to an estimated 870 tonnes, the highest since assessments by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) began cooperating with the Burmese government in 2002.
Police in southern Shan state’s Pinlaung township seized more than 900 kg of raw opium during a raid at a cave in the area after being tipped off that the site was being used to produce narcotics
Opium production in Burma has risen for the sixth consecutive year, despite a government commitment to eradicate cultivation by 2014, according to a new UN report released on Wednesday
[scrollGallery id=19] Reuters accompanied Burmese officials and staff from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime to Shan state recently to observe Burma’s proclaimed war on opium. Burmese police and UN[…]
Burmese troops and local paramilitary groups taking bribes from farmers who can earn substantial revenue from the opium trade
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Jan 26, 2010 (DVB), Palaung communities in northeastern Burma are being "devastated" by opium addiction, with mothers and wives forced to carry the weight of growing abuse among men, a[…]
Dec 14, 2009 (DVB), Opium cultivation in Burma has doubled since 2006, despite production of the narcotic falling, the United Nations drugs office has said. "The trend is going in[…]
July 10, 2009 (DVB), Prohibition on poppy cultivation enforced by armed groups in Burma's Shan state has caused a dramatic cut in opium production, although the government has been 'unwilling'[…]
June 25, 2009 (DVB), Burma remains the world's second largest source of opium, according to a UN report released yesterday that found a slight rise in opium poppy cultivation across[…]
Mar 20, 2009 (DVB), Chin state locals who suffered food shortages last year due to mass flowering of bamboo have been forced to grow and sell opium to generate income,[…]
Dec 14, 2007 (AFP), Burma, the world’s second-largest opium producer after Afghanistan, seized nearly 40 kilogrammes (88 pounds) of the drug in November, state media said Friday. There were 239[…]
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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. . .
Drugs worth approximately 1.6 billion kyat ($1.15 million USD) were seized in Shan State over the weekend.
Malaysia has made its largest ever seizure of crystal methamphetamine, officials said on Monday, finding nearly 1.2 tonnes of the drug disguised as tea in a shipment from Burma, and arrested six suspected traffickers.
ASEAN member states met at the United Nations to set up a framework for border control cooperation as latest statistics showed that illicit trade and organised crime amounts to $100 billion in the region.
A new national drug control policy is being drafted and will be implemented by the end of this year, according to Burma’s Ministry of Home Affairs.
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Most state-run drug rehabilitation centres in Burma accept men only.
Burma remains one of the world’s largest producers of illicit drugs, including opium, heroin and methamphetamines.
