Hundreds of people in a village in Hlegu township of Yangon region, Myanmar, on Saturday took part in a grand procession to celebrate Shinbyu, a revered Theravada Buddhist tradition.

Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar's remote poppy fields ... but we are just trying hard to get by," he told AFP ...

Myanmar became the world's biggest producer of opium, harvesting 1,080 tons. While opium poppies have long flourished in ...

For those displaced by relentless conflict in the world’s biggest producer of opium, poppy farming offers a fragile lifeline.

The Arunachal Pradesh government has urged the Centre to extend the Vibrant Village Programme (VVP) beyond its current focus ...

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84 Indonesians Taken Out of Scam Centers in Myanmar Are Set to Go Home MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) — Eighty-four Indonesians freed from scam centers in Myanmar arrived at the Thai border city of Mae ...

Myanmar, officially known as Burma, is a Southeast Asian country bordered by Bangladesh and India to the west, China to the north, Laos and Thailand to the east, and the Indian Ocean to the south.

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

Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar's remote poppy fields ... but we are just trying hard to get by," he told AFP in rural Pekon township of eastern Shan state. He says he regrets ...

Four years on, the United Nations has said Myanmar is mired in a "polycrisis ... but we are just trying hard to get by," he told AFP in rural Pekon township of eastern Shan state.