A former lawyer in Pu'er city, southwest China's Yunnan Province, who previously defended drug-related cases, was found in ...

Trump would benefit from this history lesson. As he enters office, he has promised to end the war in Ukraine, deport large ...

Shanghai straddles the past and the future, a dizzying prism of many histories and cultures. The poet Sally Wen Mao shares ...

The claim by a Hindu leader that churches are involved in drug trade in India’s northeast region has sparked widespread anger ...

When HSBC ,opened its doors in Hong Kong and Shanghai in 1865, Chinese trade flows were just bubbling up again after the ...

The Taliban banned the cultivation of narcotics in 2022, causing a drop in opium production last year. However, this year it ...

Afghanistan’s opium poppy cultivation grew in 2024 despite a Taliban-imposed ban, according to a United Nations report. Cultivation increased by an estimated 19 percent this year, the report published ...

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

In 1868, Republican Ulysses S. Grant won the presidential election over Democrat Horatio Seymour.

Then came the smuggling of Indian opium into the Chinese kingdom. The contours of South Asia's commercial landscape began to shift dramatically, laying the groundwork for the complex interactions ...