Reading my rants about humanitarian crises around the world, the philanthropically minded among you may have thought to ...

Opium poppy cultivation in war-torn Myanmar has surged to its highest level in a decade, rising 17 per cent in the past year ...

This photo taken on February 11, 2025 shows sap emerging from poppies during harvest time in an illegal poppy field in Pekon ...

Conflict and economic hardship are pushing more farmers into the illicit trade. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

Bangkok (Thailand), 3 December 2025 – Myanmar’s opium poppy cultivation is at a ten-year peak, the United Nations Office on ...

YANGON: Independent candidate Win Kyaw held an election campaign rally on 30 November in Aye Tharyar city, Taunggyi Township, ...

As China cut domestic extraction, uncontrolled mining in areas of Myanmar ruled by powerful ethnic armies has boomed.

Thailand closes border crossings for seven days, except the Thai–Myanmar Friendship Bridge 1, as Myanmar–Karen clashes ...

The West's incoherent strategy is no match for a ruthless, integrated Chinese approach that leverages economic links to its advantage Over the past year, China has increasingly wielded its economic ...

YANGON: Myanmar authorities have seized over one tonne of methamphetamine, or Ice, in eastern Myanmar's Shan state, the daily The Mirror reported on Saturday (Nov 29).

Sources say the Kachin Independence Army’s leader was ordered to Kunming and told that the handover of the two towns to the ...