Rising from the muddy fields on the Mekong riverbank in Laos, a lotus tops a casino in a sprawling city which analysts decry ...

In a lawless zone on Laos’s edge, one casino tycoon rules a criminal empire. Join us as we dive into the Golden Triangle’s ...

The Golden Triangle, the mountainous region where the borders of Laos, Myanmar and Thailand meet, is wild and remote, distant in every sense of the word from the centers of all three countries.

A Vietnamese-led drug ring smuggling narcotics from the Golden Triangle was dismantled with 68 bricks of synthetic drugs ...

An aerial view of the Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone along the Mekong River in northwest Laos, as seen in February 2021. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/SaiLp The government of Laos has ordered ...

Laos battles Golden Triangle traffickers from creating drug corridor on its land Laos Sunday, 24 Nov 2024 11:49 AM MYT A poppy field in the flowering ...

The “Golden Triangle,” where the borders of Myanmar, Laos and Thailand meet, is famous for the production of opium and heroin, which flourished largely because the remote location and lax law ...

Drug production and trafficking has surged in the infamous “Golden Triangle“, where the borders of Myanmar, Laos and Thailand meet, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has ...

Methamphetamine seizures across East Asia surged to 236 tons last year, a 24% jump from 2023, with the bulk of the ...

The destroyed drugs included opium, heroin, methamphetamine, marijuana, ketamine and the stimulant known as ice, or crystal meth.

Rising from the muddy fields on the Mekong riverbank in Laos, a lotus tops a casino in a sprawling city which analysts decry ...