De Orta also tells stories, for example about the Persian opium enthusiast he met when serving as a physician at the court of ...

Thousands of Chinese labourers were brought to Canada in the 1880s to build the Canadian Pacific Railway. After it was completed, many settled in Vancouver’s Chinatown, a neighbourhood many ...

Opium prices in Afghanistan have skyrocketed, nearing record highs and primarily benefiting large traffickers and organised crime networks. A recent report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and ...

They eat sparingly, and there are even those who have subsisted for years on drinking nothing but tea and smoking chillums (opium pipes). But why do they smoke weed? They told Bandeep it’s ...

"If anyone were in my shoes, they would likely do the same." - Displaced and desperate - Myanmar's opium production was previously second only to Afghanistan, where poppy farming flourished ...

Along with low temperatures and even lower wind chills, many people could end up dealing with frozen pipes. The American Red Cross offers several tips for preventing frozen pipes and how to thaw ...

Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar's remote poppy fields, displaced farmer Aung Hla describes the narcotic crop as his only prospect in a country made barren by conflict. The 35-year-old ...

I missed seeing the famous Naga Sadhus at the Mahakumbh, which was disappointing as I had so many questions I would have liked to ask. But I caught up with them indirectly and unexpectedly late last ...

CBSA found 14 kilos of opium in his luggage You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. After an Ontario real estate agent returning from a trip to ...

East Pipes earns SAR 296.5M in 9M 2024/25; Q3 at SAR 112.4M 9 M 2024 East Pipes profit grows to SAR 184.1M in H1 2024/25; Q2 at SAR 112.8M 6 M 2024 East Pipes turns to profit of SAR 71.2M in Q1 ...