Twenty years later, China lost the Second Opium War, in which French, Russian and a few American forces participated ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ... 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 ...