For nearly a century, widespread Chinese addiction to opium destroyed millions of lives and ravaged a great nation. China’s ...

China has implemented strict regulations regarding video gaming by minors below 18, which will be limited to three hours a week to combat what authorities have described as the “spiritual opium”.

The essential feature of the French convention for the control of the sale of opium is the number of places of sale, prohibition of sale to minor, non-increase in the number of opium dens, prohibition ...

Almost all the northeast's production was in one province, Badakhshan, a mountainous area that includes a stretch of the ...

The relatively unknown story of wartime Japan’s ties with the opium trade in China is now in the public domain, courtesy of a manga series that has already sold more than 1.8 million copies in ...

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The 13-floor building was completed in 1929, a time when large parts of Shanghai were occupied by colonial forces and the ...

Poppy planting remains far below pre-ban levels, United Nations reports, despite rise of 19 percent year on year.

This state-run trade was achieved largely through two wars, which forced China to open its doors to British Indian opium. Hulton Archive Scenes from an opium factory in northern India Historian ...

The survey warned that high prices and dwindling opium stocks in the country may tempt Afghan farmers to ignore the Taliban’s ...

Novelist Amitav Ghosh turns to non-fiction to chart the greed and racism at the heart of British and American opium sales to ...