We have a glimpse this morning of life inside Southeast Asia's Golden Triangle. That's the name for a region that produces a lot of the world's opium, the raw material for heroin, among other things.

YANGON, MyanmarYANGON, Myanmar — Myanmar’s government has signed an agreement with a major ethnic rebel group to build mutual trust in an effort to defuse recent tensions between the armies from the ...

YANGON: Wa News Land, a local news outlet, said on September 5 that the public may file a complaint to the justice department of Wa to prevent public mobilisation and election campaigning in Hopan and ...

The U.S. has had a profound impact on Myanmar's Wa people. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Patrick Winn about his new book, Narcotopia: In Search of the Asian Drug Cartel That Survived the CIA. We have a ...