SOUTH-EAST ASIA: Synthetics replace opium threat

Ending the trafficking of refined heroin from Burma and Laos would ease decades of social and...

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AFGHANISTAN: Security at risk in run-up to election

A bomb exploded outside the offices of a US security company in Kabul on August 29, killing at...

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The reduction in the production of illicit crops is crucial to diminishing the revenues of...

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Russia is failing to stem its growing narcotics problem, which brings with it serious economic...

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Lieutenant-General Gafur Mirzoyev, the former head of the Drug Control Agency who was arrested on...

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US congressional approval, last month, of military aid to Colombia for 2005 is testimony to the...

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The growing tourist industry could be damaged if investors and visitors are deterred because of...

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Karzai is under increasing pressure to reduce the influence of the country's warlords in the...

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The demand for federal military intervention to deal with drug-related crime highlights the Rio...

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Levan Varshalomidze, a young technocrat from Batumi, has been appointed head of an interim...

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