Tracing new tracks
Article Abstract:
Remnants of the splintered Communist Party of Burma (CPB) have continued with narcotics trade since the party's split in 1989. During the time when CPB still controlled 80% of Burma's poppy fields, shipment was through the Thai border where it was processed into heroin. CPB, however, was able to build its own processing plants along the Sino-Burmese border and heroin production went up to 185 tons in 1991 from 53 tons in 1987. A shipment seizure incident in May 1991 off the coast of Chanthaburi necessitated a search for a new route which turned out to be through Laos.
Publication Name: Far Eastern Economic Review
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0014-7591
Year: 1993
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
Safe at home: drug lords are keeping their cash in the country
Article Abstract:
The Burmese government has denied that it is benefiting from the drug trade, but Burma experts have identified serious statistical discrepancies, due to an influx of drug money. The influx of money coincided with the surrender of Khun Sa, a drug lord, who has since invested much of his fortune in real estate and hotels. Burma is still the largest producer of illicit heroin in the world, exporting $800-$1 billion worth a year, according to US government estimates.
Publication Name: Far Eastern Economic Review
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0014-7591
Year: 1997
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
Drug buddies
Article Abstract:
The opium business of drugs baron Khun Sa appears to be thriving, despite a supposed deal with the Burmese government to cut production. According to ex-associates of Khun Sa, he has taken the name U Htet Aung and is residing by a lake in a Rangoon, Burma, compound. The US State Department estimates that 2,560 tons of opium were harvested in Burma in 1996, up 9% from 1995, and that a similar amount will be harvested in 1997.
Publication Name: Far Eastern Economic Review
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0014-7591
Year: 1996
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
- Abstracts: Making tracks. Morose Christmas. Alarm bells
- Abstracts: Gold fever. Stopping the gold rush. Anyone's guess: will China's renminbi continue to strengthen?
- Abstracts: Attritional politics: Ramos looks for ways to end communist rebellion. part 2 New pastures nearby: Ramos looks to his neighbours in the post-US era