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From Golden Triangle to Rubber Belt?
The Future of Opium Bans in the Kokang and Wa Regions
In the Kokang and Wa regions in northern Burma opium bans have ended over a century of poppy cultivation. The bans have had dramatic consequences for local communities. They depended on opium as a cash crop, to buy food, clothing, and medicines.
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Alternative Development or Business as Usual?
China’s Opium Substitution Policy in Burma and Laos
The Chinese Government's opium substitution programmes in northern Burma and Laos have prompted a booming rubber industry, but the beneficiaries have been a small few with many others losing their lands as a result.
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Chinese version (PDF)
Withdrawal Symptoms in the Golden Triangle
A Drugs Market in Disarray
Drug control agencies have called the significant decline in opium production in Southeast Asia over the past decade a 'success story'. The latest report of the Transnational Institute (TNI). based on in-depth research in the region, casts serious doubts on this claim noting that Southeast Asia suffers from a variety of 'withdrawal symptoms' that leave little reason for optimism.
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The ATS Boom in Southeast Asia (PDF)
Conclusions and recommendations (PDF)
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