Myanmar overtook Afghanistan as the world's largest producer of opium in 2023 - Copyright AFP STR Myanmar overtook Afghanistan as the world's largest producer of ...

"Before the coup, I was just an ordinary farmer," says Aung Hla, one of many in Myanmar who have turned to opium production in the wake of the 2021 seizure of power by the junta. The 35-year-old used ...

SINGAPORE/YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar businessman Lay has doubled the number of cars he owns to six in just three years, as reforms in Southeast Asia's poorest country unleash a wave... August 24, 2021 ...

Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar's remote poppy fields, displaced farmer Aung Hla describes the narcotic crop as his only prospect in a country made barren by conflict. The 35-year-old ...

Aung Hla was forced off his land in Moe Bye village by fighting after the coup. When he resettled, his usual crops were no longer profitable, but the hardy poppy promised "just enough for a livelihood ...