The ensuing decade-long war between the Soviets and the U.S ... the deadline was extended—giving some farmers enough time to first harvest the opium, then collect their check from ISAF.

PRESENTER:'Here in this room in Nanking, 'they negotiated the first of what the Chinese ... The Chinese resisted the opium trade. This led to war, after the Chinese destroyed all the British ...

The result was the “First Opium War,” in which Britain won a resounding victory. As a consequence, Chinese ports were ...

The first Opium War lasted four years, and when it ended, the opium trade continued apace. In 1860, the British went so far as to pressure the Chinese to legalize the drug, with predictably ...

In the mid-1840's, following defeat by Britain in the first Opium War, a series of natural catastrophes occurred across China resulting in famine, peasant uprisings and rebellions. Understandably ...

The latest UNODC survey confirms war-torn country’s status as world’s top opium producer but again fails to point blame at ...

The Opium War is a 1943 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Masahiro Makino. "Ahen senso" in Japan refers to the First Opium War. The story of the film concerns this war.

Resistance to the takeover has led to what is now a civil war. Many farmers who had left opium behind during the period of ...

This is the first time in his life that he doesn't fear being hit by a bomb when venturing out. But for a people already battered by a long war, the opium ban has struck a crushing blow ...