The opening salvo in the global war on drugs took place in a Dutch royal palace a century ago, and involved not guns but ...

In another grim signal of a widening war in northern Burma’s opium zones, last week saw an outbreak of intense fighting between government forces and ethnic rebels, prompting some 50,000 Kokang ...

Using Google Earth as our lens, we trace the Opium Wars by mapping the ports, river systems, and fortified positions that shaped both conflicts between Qing China and the British Empire. We begin ...