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 Wars, a 19th-century armed conflict between the Qing Dynasty and the British Empire, is narrated by a history professor who has a hypnotic effect on his students.

The Opium Wars that devastated China ©Getty Images The Opium Wars of the mid-19th century were fought between the Western powers and the Qing dynasty, which ruled China from 1644 to 1912.

From 1914, morphine ampoules were needed en masse to aid millions of soldiers injured in the bloody battles of the First World War. In fact this sudden and important demand temporarily halted advances ...

However, what has not changed is the US’s brutal aggression over the years. After the conclusion of the First Opium War in ...

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 ...

In a major blow to the illegal opium trade, the Manipur Police and the Forest Department have seized and destroyed 55 acres ...

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

Resistance to the takeover has led to what is now a civil war. Many farmers who had left opium behind during the period of relative stability before the military takeover returned to growing opium ...

Abande said he belongs to “a tribal militia called the United Front,” which is now supporting the Sudanese military in its ...

Just as the aftermath of the Opium War was not limited to England and Qing China, the fentanyl war between the U.S. and China, with tariffs used as a weapon, would shake the global economic order as ...