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Amitav Ghosh’s Reckoning With Opium
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 3 months agoIt takes some daring to choose opium as your historical protagonist. The milky sap of the poppy flower has taken so many forms across so many centuries...
Ramaswamy says in GOP debate that we're in 'modern opium war' on overdoses in Alabama, US
The Montgomery Advertiser via Yahoo News· 6 months agoDuring the Republican presidential primary debate in Tuscaloosa on Wednesday evening, biotech...
War-wracked Myanmar is now the world's top opium producer, surpassing Afghanistan, says UN agency
Associated Press via AOL· 6 months agoMyanmar, already wracked by a brutal civil war, has regained the unenviable title of the world’s...
Drugs, wars and international intrigue on display at Forbes House Museum in Milton
Patriot Ledger via Yahoo News· 2 years agoMILTON − The opium that flooded 19th-century China destroyed lives and unraveled society under the...
Afghanistan opium poppy supply plummets 95% after Taliban ban - U.N
Reuters via Yahoo News· 7 months agoOpium poppy production in Afghanistan, previously the world's top supplier, has plummeted since the...
Timeline: Hong Kong under 25 years of Chinese rule
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe following are key events in the history of Hong Kong, which marked the 25th anniversary of its handover from British to Chinese rule on Friday. China...
Myanmar overtakes Afghanistan to become world’s leading opium producer, UN says
CNN via Yahoo News· 6 months agoMyanmar has become the world’s biggest producer of opium, overtaking Afghanistan after the ruling...
Why is China denying Hong Kong was ever a British colony?
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoChinese and Hong Kong flags on Friday mark the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong's handover to China...
Opinion: America's movement toward true multi-ethnicity has been filled with resistance
Asheville Citizen-Times via Yahoo News· 4 months agoI grew up in China where I was part of an ethnic minority. Many of the people there called us...
Afghanistan is the fastest-growing maker of methamphetamine, U.N. drug agency says
Politico via Yahoo News· 9 months agoISLAMABAD — Afghanistan is the world’s fastest-growing maker of methamphetamine, a report from the...