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  • Low wages in US build mansions in China - Feature 11 Nov 2009 05:30 GMT
    ... on a dangerous journey that often involved a month-long trek across the mountains of Myanmar - where they had to avoid dangerous opium growers - and sneaking into Thailand. In Bangkok, a few forged papers and bribed officials ...

  • A Rebel Stronghold in Myanmar on Alert (Today) 6 Nov 2009 09:08 GMT
    ... Wa wealth comes from selling methamphetamine and heroin, both of which have been pouring across ... a conflict would affect the supply of illicit drugs. Mr. Lintner is pessimistic. Even if Myanmar's ... be eradicated, he said. Much of the opium harvested today in Myanmar is grown in ...

  • A Rebel Stronghold in Myanmar on Alert (Yesterday) 7 Nov 2009 06:13 GMT
    ... Wa wealth comes from selling methamphetamine and heroin, both of which have been pouring across ... a conflict would affect the supply of illicit drugs. Mr. Lintner is pessimistic. Even if Myanmar's ... be eradicated, he said. Much of the opium harvested today in Myanmar is grown in ...

  • Thai Border on Guard for Drugs From Myanmar 6 Nov 2009 17:11 GMT
    ... FANG, Thailand - The heroin and methamphetamine traffickers carry assault weapons and ... country's efforts to interdict the tons of illicit drugs manufactured in the freewheeling northern reaches of ...

  • US has 'low expectations' from Burma over speedy democratic reforms in country 6 Nov 2009 08:13 GMT
    ... US has 'low expectations' from Burma over speedy democratic reforms in country November ... be finessed include efforts to curb Burma's illegal drugs production and a stop to any ...

  • Pillai 9 Nov 2009 13:12 GMT
    ... Arms for Northeast militants and Maoists are finding their way ... to insurgent groups in India’s Northeast and Myanmar. Though the forces on the Indian side ... militias controlling the Golden Triangle dovetail their narcotics trade with gun-running. While the Was restrict ...

  • Wa Kor - 99 degrees 42' East, 11 degrees 39' North. 5 Nov 2009 03:37 GMT
    ... 13 km away, the mountainous border with Burma. In 1868, King Mongkut sat on a ... power had already been demonstrated in the Opium Wars with China and in neighbouring Burma. The ...

  • In Hong Kong, Anglican consultation addresses horrors of human trafficking 9 Nov 2009 20:33 GMT
    ... Pacific; • Ohnmar Ei Ei Chaw of Myanmar, the national project coordinator of the U.N. ... Golden Triangle of Thailand, a "paradise" of opium, prostitution, trafficking and slavery. Legal issues and legislative ...

  • Refugee lashes out at pixmen 7 Nov 2009 01:31 GMT
    ... A Myanmar refugee who was charged with corruption yesterday ... Roslan Abdullah attached to the Kulaijaya police narcotics department in order to prevent her husband, ...

  • Drugs, guns and war in Myanmar 3 Nov 2009 10:50 GMT
    ... weapons to counter anticipated government offensives, a narcotics fire-sale is raising concerns of greater instability ... the drug trade to China consists of opium and heroin, which is becoming a growing problem seen in ...

  • Myanmar torches US$20 millions drugs 2 Nov 2009 02:31 GMT
    ... 2009 10:18 am TWN, AFP YANGON -- Myanmar's junta has burnt more than 20 million ... remains the world's second largest producer of opium after Afghanistan. Khin Yi was quoted as saying ...

  • Border clashes net thousands of pills 2 Nov 2009 16:30 GMT
    ... BANGKOK, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- Around 50,000 capsules of ... United Wa State Army, a widely suspected narcotics growing and trafficking group. The UWSA includes ... tribe, were arrested on charges of possessing illegal drugs -- 12,000 yaba pills hidden under the ...

  • Drugs worth $20m' destroyed 2 Nov 2009 09:22 GMT
    ... Nov 2, 2009 (DVB)–Around $US20 million worth of seized ... Shan state is the world’s second largest heroin producer after Afghanistan. Recently however it has seen ... bucked global trends of a downturn in narcotics output. Despite this, the New Light of ...

  • Drugs burned during ceremony were fake' 3 Nov 2009 12:17 GMT
    ... Nov 3, 2009 (DVB)–Around 15 police officers in northeastern ... who belonged to the Taunggyi Special Police Narcotics Unit in Shan state, were arrested following ... Shan state is the world’s second largest heroin producer after Afghanistan. Recently however it has seen ...

  • Bangkok-Kunming road brings more drugs, China says 2 Nov 2009 06:52 GMT
    ... said. Yunnan has long, porous borders with Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam, which are straddled by ... use and drug-related crime. The government said heroin, methamphetamines and opium recovered in Yunnan last year accounted for ...


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