Further hostilities broke out in the Second Opium War of 1856-58 when combined British and French forces again inflicted military defeats on China and demanded further concessions on trade.

Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar's remote poppy fields, displaced farmer Aung Hla describes the narcotic crop as ...

Volume two covers the subsequent period through Japan’s World War II defeat of 1945. The second volume also notes that the Manchukuo government forced opium addicts and other drug users to work ...

Displaced and desperate Myanmar's opium production was previously second only to Afghanistan ... Aung Hla agreed. With the war, he said, "we don't have any choice." ...

Myanmar’s opium production was previously second only to Afghanistan, where poppy farming flourished following the US-led invasion in the wake of the Sept 11, 2001 attacks. But after the Taliban ...

Displaced and desperate – Myanmar’s opium production was previously second only to Afghanistan ... Aung Hla agreed. With the war, he said, “we don’t have any choice”.

Displaced and desperate - Myanmar's opium production was previously second only to Afghanistan, where poppy farming flourished following ... we wouldn't plant any poppy fields even if we were asked to ...

including the Opium War, Second Sino-Japanese War, and Chinese Civil War. The antihero Rin is even inspired by Mao Zedong, and following her journey will pull you between rooting for her ...