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YANGON – Opium cultivation in Myanmar has reached a record high in 10 years, and opium plantations are also increasing in opium-growing areas, according to a statement from the United Nations Office ...

Myanmar's opium cultivation hit a 10-year high in 2025, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) warned on Wednesday. A report by the UNODC titled "Myanmar Opium Survey 2025: Cultivation, ...

A file picture showing a Myanmar farmer tending to his poppy field near Pekon township in southern Shan State. (EPA Images pic) Myanmar’s opium poppy cultivation has hit a decade-record level, the ...

This photo taken on February 11, 2025 shows sap emerging from poppies during harvest time in an illegal poppy field in Pekon Township, on the border of Karen State and southern Shan State. Myanmar in ...

War-ravaged Myanmar is a hive of black market activity ranging from illegal mining to internet scamming and the manufacture of illicit drugs like methamphetamine and heroin. The nation has long ranked ...

Yangon (Myanmar) (AFP) – Myanmar's opium poppy cultivation has hit a decade-record level, the United Nations said Wednesday, with early indications its heroin output is now being trafficked to Western ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Ethnic Pa-O poppy farmer holds a harvested poppy ...

Opium poppy cultivation in Myanmar has hit a 10-year peak, with the crop area increasing in all growing regions in the war-scarred country, the United Nations says. In its latest Myanmar opium survey, ...

Myanmar’s opium poppy cultivation has hit a decade-record level, the United Nations warned Wednesday, with early indications its heroin output is now being trafficked to Western markets. War-ravaged ...