Opium production in Myanmar has fallen for the first time since a military coup in 2021, the UN said on December 12, but the country remains the world’s biggest producer of the narcotic. Poppies have long flourished in Myanmar’s remote borderlands, where ethnic minority armed groups and criminal outfits refine them into heroin and law...

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