The opening salvo in the global war on drugs took place in a Dutch royal palace a century ago, and involved not guns but ...

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Despite a democratic opening and hopes for peace with the ethnic insurgencies in the northern hinterlands, horrific accounts of rights abuses continue to emerge from the multi-sided war over Burma’s ...

Part 1. Opium in antiquity. The mysterious origins of the opium poppy ; Papyruses and poppies ; A journey around the Mediterranean. Part 2. Opium and the birth of modern medicine. Classic cures, ...

This video uses Google Earth to retrace the Opium Wars between Britain and Qing China, revealing the global trade routes, ...

Last week, Burma’s President Thein Sein signed a cease-fire with eight armed rebel groups in a bid to bring the country’s multiple ethnic insurgencies to an end before next month’s general ...