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

In a journalistic odyssey of more than three decades, filmmaker Adrian Cowell ventures into a remote corner of Burma known as Shan State ... ranging from opium farmers to U.S. officials, Cowell ...

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

The 35-year-old was a rice farmer when the junta seized power in a 2021 coup ... but we are just trying hard to get by,” he ...

The 35-year-old was a rice farmer when the junta seized power in ... to get by," he told AFP in rural Pekon township of eastern Shan state. He says he regrets growing the substance — the core ...