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The authorities in Myanmar destroyed more than $446 million worth of illegal drugs seized from around the country to mark an annual international anti-drug trafficking day on Monday, police said.
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 ...
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 ...
On an annual rate, the production of opium in the country was estimated to be some 150 tonnes (150 long tons; 170 short tons), according to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in 1956. [17] In more recent years, following a spike in production until 2014, opium poppy cultivation in Myanmar has declined year-on-year since 2015.
[24] Tensions between the central government and Wa State were heightened in 2009. [25] During this time, peace initiative proposals by Wa State were rejected by the Myanmar government. [26] The government warned on 27 April 2010 that the WHP program could push Myanmar and Wa State into further conflict. [27] [clarification needed]
At the peak of its opium production in 2007, the Golden Crescent produced more than 8,000 of the world's almost 9,000 total tons of opium, a near monopoly. [6] The Golden Crescent also dominates the cannabis resin market due to the high resin yields of the region (145 kg/ha), four times more than Morocco (36 kg/ha). [ 7 ]
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.
Myanmar Business Today - Myanmar's first bilingual (English-Myanmar) business newspaper [14] Myanmar Digest [30] Myanmar Post - privately owned [31] Sunday Journal [32] The Myanmar Times, [33] a Burmese weekly news journal (daily newspaper in English) Premier Eleven Sports Journal [11] Popular News Journal [34] Seven Days News or 7 Days News ...