For those displaced by relentless conflict in the world’s biggest producer of opium, poppy farming offers a fragile lifeline.

Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar's remote poppy fields, displaced farmer Aung Hla describes the narcotic crop as ...

The country's opiate economy — including the value of domestic consumption as well as exports abroad — is estimated to be ...

The United Nations food agency says that more than 1 million people in the war-torn nation of Myanmar will be cut off from ...

A worker carries bags of rice from a cargo boat at a jetty in Yangon, Myanmar, March 11, 2025. Myanmar's exports of rice and broken rice in the first 11 months of the 2024-25 fiscal year reached ...

For farmers displaced by conflict, the hardy poppy is the only thing that keeps them from starving. Read more at straitstimes ...

Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar's remote poppy fields, displaced farmer Aung ... The 35-year-old was a rice farmer when the junta seized power in a 2021 coup, adding pro-democracy ...