Opium poppy cultivation in Myanmar has hit a 10-year peak, with the crop area increasing in all growing regions in the war-scarred country, the United Nations says. In its latest Myanmar opium survey, ...

YANGON – Myanmar’s junta said on Dec 10 it was hunting for 10 activists who staged an anti-election protest, pursuing them under laws punishing organised dissent against the polls with up to a decade ...

Myanmar's opium cultivation hit a 10-year high in 2025, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) warned on Wednesday. A report by the UNODC titled "Myanmar Opium Survey 2025: Cultivation, ...

This photo taken on February 11, 2025 shows sap emerging from poppies during harvest time in an illegal poppy field in Pekon Township, on the border of Karen State and southern Shan State. Myanmar in ...

The Myanmar junta’s highly publicised crackdown on cyberfraud hubs near its borders is less a law enforcement statement than a calculated performance, analysts say, aimed at placating China and ...

Myanmar's opium cultivation reached a 10-year peak with "renewed cultivation risk" along the Thailand border, says the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) report launched early this month ...

Jets from the Myanmar military dropped two bombs on the facility in Mrauk-U, in what rebels and witnesses called a deliberate attack on civilians. By Verena Hölzl Khaing Lin had just left the hospital ...

A file picture showing a Myanmar farmer tending to his poppy field near Pekon township in southern Shan State. (EPA Images pic) Myanmar’s opium poppy cultivation has hit a decade-record level, the ...

War-ravaged Myanmar is a hive of black market activity ranging from illegal mining to internet scamming and the manufacture of illicit drugs like methamphetamine and heroin. The nation has long ranked ...

Myanmar’s opium poppy cultivation has hit a decade-record level, the United Nations warned Wednesday, with early indications its heroin output is now being trafficked to Western markets. War-ravaged ...

YANGON: Myanmar authorities have arrested 10 suspects involved in an alleged smuggling of timber across the country in the past week, state-owned daily The Mirror reported on Wednesday (Dec 10). From ...