While synthetic opiods are a relatively new class of drugs, opium has a long destructive history in trade wars and warfare, ...

A 10-year-old's homework dispute in Yongning County, China, led to his father's opium stash being exposed. In retaliation for ...

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The British forces inflicted a series of military defeats on the Chinese until 1842, when the war was ended with the Treaty of Nanking . The treaty opened five Chinese ports to British traders, ...

After the mid-18th century, when the British East India Co. was importing tea from China, few could have guessed that the industry would be revolutionized by a different plant: the opium poppy.

BANGKOK--There has been a slight drop in the production of opium in Myanmar, the world’s biggest source of the illicit drug from which heroin is derived, experts from the United Nations said ...

PROF. ZHENG YANGWEN:That the Chinese were buying a little bit of opium every time, and that number was increasing. PRESENTER:'The key to the opium trade was British control of India, 'where the ...

Imports of tea, porcelain and silk from China had created a large trade imbalance . One product that the British could access in large quantities was opium grown in territories under their ...