Opium production rending the fabric of ethnic communities
News - Drugs Source > 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 ...
 
Opium cultivation in Burma surges
News - Drugs Source > 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 ...
 
Burmese regime sets up opium factory on border
News - Drugs Source > 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 ...
 
Kokang Thwart Burma Army Drug Raid
News - Drugs Source > 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 ...
 
Burma junta ‘unwilling’ to aid opium eradication
News - Drugs Source > 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...
 
Yaba tablets seized near Bangladesh-Burma border
News - Drugs Source > 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...
 
Burma key to war on drugs
News - Drugs Source > 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 ...
 
Drug mafia related to Khun Sa nabbed
News - Drugs Source > 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 ...
 
Glue sniffing now popular among youth in Shan State
News - Drugs Source > 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 ...
 
Fewer refineries but drug output on the rise in Shan State
News - Drugs Source > 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: ...
 
Extensive poppy cultivation in border areas of Karenni and Shan State
News - Drugs Source > 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 ...
 
Burma and Afghanistan Increase Opium Production: UNODC
News - Drugs Source > 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 ...
 
More drug flow into southern Mon state
News - Drugs Source > 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 ...
 
Wanyin ill-informed choice for drug free project
News - Drugs Source > 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 ...
 
Students mark 'World Drug Day' with anti-drug posters in Northern Burma
News - Drugs Source > 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, ...
 
Mushroom growth of poppy cultivation in Sadon
News - Drugs Source > 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 ...
 
Junta's drug control claim irrelevant to ground situation: Researcher
News - Drugs Source > 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 ...
 
Anti-drug campaign by Kachin students
News - Drugs Source > 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 ...
 
Drug use in gold mines on the rise
News - Drugs Source > 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 ...
 
No opium free Burma in 2014 without political solutions
News - Drugs Source > 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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