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The Opium Wars weren’t just about drugs they were about power, profit, and empire. This video series breaks down how ...
Professor-author Amar Farooqui, who recently delivered a lecture series, unravels the insightful emergence of the city as a ...
KABUL, July 6 (Xinhua) -- Police have discovered and seized 1,500 kg of illegal drug opium poppy type in northern Afghanistan's Takhar province, Provincial Police Spokesman Nizamudin Omir said Sunday.
In an early case of industrial espionage, Robert Fortune disguised himself as a local and took tea leaves and the secrets of ...
“Chinese traders pay us in advance for the harvest,” he said, showing Al Jazeera three dinner-plate-sized mounds of opium.
From China with Love: Kash Patel explains to Joe Rogan how fentanyl became America’s opium war TOI World Desk / TIMESOFINDIA.COM / Updated: Jun 10, 2025, 17:05 IST ...
Throughout 2024, China seized 16.3 tonnes of narcotics from overseas sources, representing a 20 percent year-on-year decrease. The Golden Triangle region remained China's primary drug source, ...
The United Nations designated the day as June 26, one day after the anniversary of Qing Dynasty official Lin Zexu's destruction of about 1,400 tonnes of foreign-smuggled opium in south China in 1839.
Acclaimed Chinese artist, sculptor and environmentalist Yuan Xikun unveiled a commemorative sculpture of a legendary narcotics detection dog named Jijunxing, who was one of China's "Meritorious Dogs" ...
Charles Dickens visited Georgetown in 1842. "The heights of this neighborhood," he wrote, "are very picturesque; and are free, I should conceive, from some of the insalubrities of Washington. The air, ...
In September, China will solemnly commemorate the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance ...