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Opium poppy cultivation in Myanmar surged to its highest level in a decade this year as the nation engaged in a civil war ...
Opium poppy cultivation in war-torn Myanmar has surged to its highest level in a decade, rising 17 per cent in the past year ...
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Unregulated mining in the Mekong region is accelerating at a pace researchers warn is outstripping governance, enforcement ...
For most of her life, 59-year-old farmer Tip Kamlue has irrigated her fields in northern Thailand with the waters of the Kok ...
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According to the Washington-based Stimson Center, the past decade has seem a spike in unregulated mining activity in Myanmar, ...
Bangkok (Thailand), 3 December 2025 – Myanmar’s opium poppy cultivation is at a ten-year peak, the United Nations Office on ...
The country’s conflict is also having a countervailing impact on average poppy yields, which “sharply decreased” in 2025.