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Prague, Oct 25 (CTK) - Czech cereal harvest fell by 8.4 percent year on year to 6.85 million tonnes this year, according to today's refined estimate of the Czech Statistical [...]

Byline: SHELBY POWELL Arrested on October 18 Bryson Smith, 23, Lenoir. Second degree trespassing, received no bond. Latricia Donovan, 35, Hudson. Maintaining a vehicle or dwelling for a controlled substance, [...]

Melbourne, Australia - Myanmar's remote jungle hills may be a world away from sun-soaked Australia, but the two countries share an insidious bond - crystalline methamphetamine. Otherwise known as 'ice' [...]

Czech Republic: The Czech Statistical Office has issued the following press release: According to the harvest estimate as at 30 September, the harvest of the following is expected to be [...]

London: Derbyshire County Council, UK Government has issued the following news release: A Derbyshire man who admitted making and selling fake military medals and supplying unauthorised poppy pin badges more [...]

M2 PRESSWIRE-October 14, 2024-: Farmers cultivate an opium-free future for Lao PDR (C)1994-2024 M2 COMMUNICATIONS RDATE:11102024 High in the mountains of Houaphanh province in the north of Lao People's Democratic [...]

NEW YORK -- The following information was released by the United Nations: By Laura Gil, Lao PDR 11 October 2024 SDGs High in the mountains of Houaphanh province in the [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by the U.S. Department of State: Office of the Spokesperson Secretary Blinken will travel to Vientiane, Lao People's Democratic Republic (PDR), from October [...]

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark -- The following information was released by the University of Arkansas: The International and Global Studies Program will host professor Peter Thilly from noon to 1:30 p.m. Friday, [...]

KABUL, September 8, 2024 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- A total of 122,000 drug users were hospitalized in Afghanistan, according to Mullah Abdul Haq Hamkar, deputy head of the country's counter-narcotics [...]

ZARANJ, Afghanistan, September 8, 2024 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Authorities have set on fire 10 tonnes of illicit drugs in Afghanistan's western Nimruz province, according to provincial director for counter-narcotics [...]

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, September 3, 2024 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Counter-narcotics police during a series of operations in southern Afghanistan's Kandahar province have discovered 150 kg of opium poppy and taken [...]

Byline: Saad Mohseni Three years have passed since the chaotic U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan and the takeover of the country by the Taliban. The botched exit wasn't merely a [...]

Byline: RUCHI KUMAR Mumbai-based journalist who covers conflict, politics and gender. From 2014 to 2021, she reported out of Kabul. For nearly three decades, Afghanistan had been among the world's [...]

Afghanistan’s opium-poppy industry has nearly collapsed after a 2022 prohibition on narcotic production, but without sustainable alternatives for farmers amid a poverty crisis and climate-change shocks, it is a fragile success story, Ruchi Kumar is a Mumbai-based journalist who covers conflict, politics and gender. From 2014 to 2021, she reported out of Kabul. For nearly three decades, Afghanistan had been among the [...]

Prague, Aug 9 (CTK) - Czech cereal harvest will fall by 9.5 percent yr/yr to 6.772 million tonnes this year, and rapeseed harvest is likely to decline annually by 26.5 [...]

On July 4, JICA President Tanaka Akihiko met with Ms. Ghada Fathi Waly, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) at JICA Headquarters. During this [...]

Delegations from Afghanistan and about 30 other countries have arrived in Doha to start a third round of United Nations-sponsored talks on integrating the South Asian country into the international [...]

Bangladesh, June 24 -- While Kuki-Chin terrorists in Bangladeshs hill tracts areas as well as Kuki-Zo in Indian state of Manipur are becoming news headlines for the past several weeks [...]

Byline: ALI MALIK TARIQ-Lahore Myanmar, despite its vast resources of tin, tungsten, copper, gold, zinc, lead, nickel, silver, timber, gemstones, oil and gas reserves, faces unrest, ethnic strife, poverty, insecurity [...]

FAIZABAD, Afghanistan, August 27, 2024 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Police have discovered more than one ton of opium poppy and arrested two people on the charge of involvement in the [...]

KABUL, August 25, 2024 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Police arrested a drug smuggler and discovered 30 kg of opium poppy from his possession in the northern Afghanistan's Badakhshan province on [...]

VIENNA, Austria -- The following information was released by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime: For years, Nang Htwe had felt trapped. A widowed farmer living in the [...]

FAIZABAD, Afghanistan, August 11, 2024 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Police during a crackdown on drug dealers have arrested two drug smugglers and discovered more than 42 kg of opium poppy [...]

Czech Republic: The Czech Statistical Office has issued the following press release: The second estimate of this year's harvest as at 15 July confirmed year-on-year (y-o-y) lower production of both [...]

ZARANJ, Afghanistan, August 5, 2024 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Counter-narcotics police have discovered and destroyed a drug processing lab in western Afghanistan's Nimroz province, an official said Monday. Acting on [...]

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, July 26, 2024 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Police have seized 46 kg of opium poppy in south Afghanistan's Kandahar province and arrested three persons on the charge of [...]