Laos Makes Asia’s Largest Ever Drug Bust
Police in Laos have made the biggest single drug seizure ever recorded in Asia
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Opium Poppy Cultivation In ‘Golden Triangle’ Hits New High in 2014 – UN Report
Cultivation of opium poppy crops in Myanmar and Laos rose again for the eighth consecutive year, nearly tripling the amount harvested in 2006, according to a new report released by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) today.
The Southeast Asia Opium Survey 2014 – Myanmar and Lao PDR found that opium poppy cultivation rose from 63,800 hectares (ha) in 2014 compared to 61,200 ha in 2013.
This means that Myanmar will remain Southeast Asia’s top opium producer – and the world’s second largest after …..
It’s Happy Hour For Heroin Traffickers Of The Golden Triangle
These are boom times in the Golden Triangle, long notorious as Southeast Asia’s drug production capital. For the farmers in the remote hills around the town of Muang Long in northwestern Laos that means only one thing: increased demand for opium, their most profitable crop.
“Prices are going up. At the moment, it’s 10 to 12 million kip (HK$10,000 to HK$12,000) for a kilo. Last year, it was eight to nine million kip,” said Ber Ko, a local man who describes himself as a “transporter of goods”.
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) believes China – including Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan – now consumes 70 per cent of all the heroin used in the East Asia and Pacific region. Such is the desire for the drug in China that the Golden Triangle can no longer produce enough to satisfy the ……