The Opium Wars weren’t just about drugs they were about power, profit, and empire. This video series breaks down how ...

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.

A key feature of China’s opium epidemic is that it was state-sponsored. In the early 19th century , British merchants wanted to sell Indian-grown opium in China, while Chinese officials ...

China’s ‘Century of Humiliation’ with opium figures into the US fentanyl crisis by David Luckey and Scott Savitz, opinion contributors - 08/07/24 10:00 AM ET ...

The Opium Wars signalled the start of what is referred to as the“century of humiliation” in China, a period when the country was colonized and dictated to by foreign powers .

In an early case of industrial espionage, Robert Fortune disguised himself as a local and took tea leaves and the secrets of ...

During the 1910s, one tin of opium from China cost about $2.50 to produce, and the same tin smuggled into the United States sold for more than $120, according to a news article published by the ...

Chatra: Police have arrested a 19-year-old drug peddler Santosh Kumar and seized 23.35 kg opium worth Rs 70 lakh from his ...

Professor-author Amar Farooqui, who recently delivered a lecture series, unravels the insightful emergence of the city as a ...

Poppy seed is so commonplace in Bengali cuisine – and held in such high regard – that I almost took a packet as a gift for my ...

Dr. W. H. G. Aspland, General Secretary of the International Anti-Opium Association in Peking, says: “In two districts in South Fu-Kien the military authorities are planning to raise $15,000,000 ...

Further hostilities broke out in the Second Opium War of 1856-58 when combined British and French forces again inflicted military defeats on China and demanded further concessions on trade.. Opium and ...