UN: Opium growth increasing in Myanmar, Laos
Opium cultivation is back on the rise in Myanmar and Laos, with impoverished farmers lured by higher prices, according to a United Nations report.
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UN plans for a 'flood of drugs'
United Nations officials in Afghanistan are attempting to create a "flood of drugs" in the country intended to destroy the value of opium.
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Afghanistan jails SA man for 16 years over heroin
An Afghan court sentenced a South African man to 16 years in prison for trying to board a plane at Kabul's international airport with a bag of heroin.
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Helmand's fields yield a bumper opium harvest
Figures from the United Nations to be released this week are set to reveal that opium production in the southern regions of Afghanistan has soared/
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