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A new book explores the controversial life of a Kokang legend who pioneered the opium trade in the Golden Triangle and played a decades-long role in the region’s shadowy politics.

The mostly ethnic Chinese people of the Kokang region in Shan State are backing resistance to the junta, almost certainly with the approval of Beijing.

Oklahoma City Repertory Theatre presented "Piano Tales" by James & JJJJJerome as part of its spring 2022 "Reboot Season."

To India’s east, the surreal rise of a narco-nightmare The surreal history of East Asia’s narco-kingdoms, as dark as any opium nightmare, teaches us what happens when authoritarianism, corruption and underdevelopment collude to bring about the implosion of polities. An anti-drug exhibit is seen at the Drug Elimination museum in Yangon, Myanmar. “Loyalty to the Heavens”, read the banner; beneath it, a man cried in pain as a blowtorch was held to his feet, hammer-blow jolts from an electr...