| News - Drugs Written by Larry Jagan/Mizzima News Thursday, 28 January 2010 19:19 | | | Opium poppy cultivation in Burma is surging again in areas controlled by the country’s military, according to a report just published. More alarmingly, drug addiction is skyrocketing in areas ... |
| News - Drugs Written by Salai Pi Pi & Myint Maung/Mizzima News Wednesday, 27 January 2010 19:47 | | | Despite the Burmese military junta’s claims of successfully reducing drug cultivation in Burma, opium poppy cultivation in northern Shan state has sharply risen over the past two years ... |
| News - Drugs Written by Khonumthung News Thursday, 07 January 2010 22:55 | | | The Burmese military regime has set up an opium factory in the Indo-Myanmar border area as of November 2009. “The opium factory has been built 30 miles from Tamu town, Sagaing division. It is located on the Indo-Myanmar border area ... |
| News - Drugs Written by LAWI WENG/The Irrawaddy Monday, 10 August 2009 22:30 | |  Tension is high between the Burmese military and the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA), a Kokang ceasefire group, following an attempted drug raid by some 70 Burmese troops on the house of the Kokang group’s chairman on Saturday ... |
| News - Drugs Written by Francis Wade/DVB Friday, 10 July 2009 18:17 | | | Prohibition on poppy cultivation enforced by armed groups in Burma’s Shan state has caused a dramatic cut in opium production, although the government has been ‘unwilling’ to help, says a report... |
| News - Drugs Written by Kaladan Press Friday, 22 May 2009 21:54 | | Two people were arrested and about 200 pieces of banned Yaba tablets were seized from Dumdum Mia by the police, while they were being smuggled to another place, a source from Teknaf said...
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| News - Drugs Written by Bangkok Post Wednesday, 25 March 2009 12:03 | | Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva is to kick off a new campaign against illegal drugs next week. And there is good reason for the new impetus on the "war on drugs". In announcing the new campaign, Mr Abhisit cited frightening new evidence ...
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| News - Drugs Written by Usa Pichai/Mizzima Monday, 23 March 2009 22:08 | | Members of a large drug network were arrested in Thailand, after the Thai government vowed to check the drug menace in its northern region within six months. Last Friday, the Thai Minister of Justice, Pirapan Salirathavibhaga, and related authorities held a press conference ...
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| News - Drugs Written by Hseng Khio Fah/Shan Herald Agency for News Friday, 09 January 2009 23:14 | | Sniffing glue is a new phenomenon among the youth in Shan State as a substitute to other drugs, according to several sources. In northern Shan State capital Lashio, young people ...
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| News - Drugs Written by S.H.A.N. Saturday, 28 June 2008 12:30 | | | There are lesser heroin or methamphetamine factories in existence along the Thai-Burma border, as compared to 2003, when SHAN's Drug Watch published Show Business: ... |
| News - Drugs Written by Daily Htet/Kantarawaddy Times Friday, 27 June 2008 10:04 | | | A Karenni Anti-Drug Action Committee's statement released on the 'International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking' states that poppy plantations are spread exten ... |
| News - Drugs Written by Lalit K Jha/UN/Irrawaddy Friday, 27 June 2008 09:50 | | | The head of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Antonio Maria Costa, said on Thursday that the alarming increase in opium production in Afghanistan ... |
| News - Drugs Written by IMNA Thursday, 26 June 2008 09:27 | | | Even though the military junta claims that Burma will be drug free by 2014 the number of people addicted to drugs in southern Burma is increasing, local people said ... |
| News - Drugs Written by S.H.A.N. Thursday, 26 June 2008 08:58 | | | More than two years after the Yawngkha drug free project was abandoned by Thailand, Burma's latest Prime Minister Gen Thein Sein, on his 29 April-1 May visit, reportedly ... |
| News - Drugs Written by KNG Thursday, 26 June 2008 08:53 | | | 'World Drug Day' today was marked by an anti-drug poster movement, the first of its kind, in key places in Myitkyina Township, the capital of Kachin State in Northern Burma, ... |
| News - Drugs Written by KNG Thursday, 26 June 2008 08:37 | | | There has been a mushrooming growth in poppy cultivation in parts of Kachin State. Cultivation of poppy has become common in Sadung (sadon) and Kambaiti areas in eastern ... |
| News - Drugs Written by Mungpi/Mizzima Thursday, 26 June 2008 07:27 | | | The Burmese military junta has claimed that its drug eradication campaign has brought about a drastic decline in opium cultivation in the country. It has decreased from 140,000 ... |
| News - Drugs Written by Myo Gyi/Mizzima Thursday, 26 June 2008 07:05 | | | Anti-drug campaign posters were pasted at crowded places in Myitkyina, Kachin State this morning, an opposition Kachin student organization said. 'All Kachin Students Uni ... |
| News - Drugs Written by KNG Wednesday, 25 June 2008 08:12 | | | There has been an alarming rise in drug addiction in gold mining areas in Danai (Tanai) Township in Hukawng Valley (HugawngValley) in Kachin State in northern Burma. Drug ... |
| News - Drugs Written by S.H.A.N. Monday, 23 June 2008 07:11 | | | As the world's Anti-Drug Day June 26 draws near, Shan Drug Watch, a branch of SHAN, has bad news for Burma's military rulers: opium output in Shan State is up from last ... |
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