SYDNEY -- Opium production in Myanmar almost doubled last year as farmers in the Golden Triangle region turned to the illicit crop in the wake of the military's power grab, a report from the United Nations has found.
The surge in opium, the raw ingredient of heroin, emphatically reversed a decadelong trend of falling cultivation.
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