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Myanmar is the world's largest producer of opium, producing some 25% of the world's opium, and forms part of the Golden Triangle. [1] The opium industry was a monopoly during colonial times and has since been illegally tolerated, encouraged and informally taxed by corrupt officials in the Tatmadaw (Armed forces of Myanmar), Myanmar Police Force ...
Myanmar, already wracked by a brutal civil war, has regained the unenviable title of the world’s biggest opium producer, according to a U.N. agency report released Tuesday. The Southeast Asian ...
The Myanmar Opium Survey 2024 issued by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime says that after three consecutive years of growth, the area where opium is cultivated fell by 4% to 45,200 hectares (111,700 acres) and production decreased by 8% to 995 metric tons due to a 4% decline in opium yield.
Myanmar has become the world's largest source of opium, thanks to domestic instability and a decline in cultivation in Afghanistan, the United Nations said in a report on Tuesday. The 95% decline ...
Most of the world's heroin came from the Golden Triangle until the early 21st century when opium production in Afghanistan increased. [7] Myanmar was the world's second-largest source of opium after Afghanistan up to 2022, producing some 25% of the world's opium, forming part of the Golden Triangle.
7Day News (Burmese: ၇ ရက် နေ့စဉ်သတင်းစာ) was a private weekly newspaper published in Myanmar, among the best-selling journals in the country. [1] Its CEO, Thaung Su Nyein , is son of Win Aung , a former minister for foreign affairs .
Myanmar has become the world’s biggest producer of opium, overtaking Afghanistan after the ruling Taliban imposed a ban on poppy cultivation, according to a new United Nations report.
Eleven Media Group was founded in 2000 by Than Htut Aung in Yangon, Myanmar.It has five weekly publications in Burmese specializing in news and sports. [1] Reporters without Borders awarded the "Media of the Year" 2011 for its long standing against the military government.