Twenty years later, China lost the Second Opium War, in which French, Russian and a few American forces participated alongside the British. China was compelled to accept full legalization of the ...

Five years ago the province was Afghanistan's second-biggest opium producer ... The ensuing decade-long war between the Soviets and the U.S.-backed mujahideen claimed farm-to-market roads ...

Further hostilities broke out in the Second Opium War of 1856-58 when combined British and French forces again inflicted ...

China’s fraught relationship with Russia goes back to 1858 and the Treaty of Aigun and the Treaty of Peking in 1860 when China was compelled, after a humiliating defeat in the second opium war ...

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

For farmers displaced by conflict, the hardy poppy is the only thing that keeps them from starving. Read more at straitstimes ...

Displaced and desperate – Myanmar’s opium production was previously second only to Afghanistan ... Aung Hla agreed. With the war, he said, “we don’t have any choice”.