Thinking back on the books I had read during 2024 I was struck by patterns I hadn’t noticed at the time I read them. I found books talking to each other, whether their authors intended it, or not.

resembling a 'reverse' scenario of the Opium Wars in the mid-1800s that weakened China's global position, according to a report from Radio Free Asia (RFA). The Tribune, now published from ...

Myanmar's opium production was previously second only to Afghanistan ... Aung Hla agreed. With the war, he said, "we don't have any choice".

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 ...

William McKinley's combination of high tariffs and overseas imperialism was disastrous — but not to Donald Trump ...

more than 51 kg of opium, and more than ₹60 lakh in cash have been recovered since March 1, when the state government launched a special drive ``war against drugs’’ in Punjab. Stating that ...