These wars involved naval battles that caused loss of life and disrupted ... particularly farmers and artisans caught in the conflict. 3. The Opium Wars: Devastation in China The British-Chinese ...

Rubio remarked, referencing the Opium Wars that confronted China and British opium merchants, as quoted by RFA. The Opium Wars that occurred between 1839 and 1842 and 1856 and 1860 saw China ...

Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar's remote ... Aung Hla agreed. With the war, he said, "we don't have any choice". (Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV ...

What do the Olympic Games, World War One Tanks, Henry VIII and opium have in common ... committed suicide during one of the first great tank battles of the war, the Somme. What happened?

Volume two covers the subsequent period through Japan’s World War II defeat of 1945. The second volume also notes that the Manchukuo government forced opium addicts and other drug users to work ...

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 ...

Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar's remote ... Aung Hla agreed. With the war, he said, "we don't have any choice." ...

Displaced and desperate - Myanmar's opium production was previously second ... Aung Hla agreed. With the war, he said, "we don't have any choice".