gently transfers the collected resin from a small trough onto a leaf plate. Before the coup, which ended a brief experiment ...

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 Hla describes the narcotic crop as his only prospect in a country made barren by conflict. The 35-year ...

Displaced and desperate - Myanmar's opium production was previously second only to Afghanistan, where poppy farming flourished ... from a small trough onto a leaf plate. Before the coup, which ...