So, what exactly were the Opium Wars? Click through for an explanation and timeline of events. You may also like: 14 Things You Must Do On Your First Trip To Japan From traditional temples to ...
The Opium Wars, a 19th-century armed conflict between the Qing Dynasty and the British Empire, is narrated by a history professor who has a hypnotic effect on his students.
From 1914, morphine ampoules were needed en masse to aid millions of soldiers injured in the bloody battles of the First World War. In fact this sudden and important demand temporarily halted advances ...
In the mid-1840's, following defeat by Britain in the first Opium War, a series of natural catastrophes occurred across China resulting in famine, peasant uprisings and rebellions. Understandably ...
“The amount of opium produced in Myanmar remains close to the highest levels we have seen since we first measured it more than 20 years ago,” UNODC Regional Rep Masood Karimipour said in a ...
Opium production in Myanmar has fallen for the first time since a military coup in 2021, the UN said Thursday, but the country remains the world's biggest producer of the narcotic. Poppies have ...