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...security forces and a lifeless economy, the Bekaa farmers this year have cultivated the largest hashish harvest since the war-torn 1980s when this fertile valley was awash with drug crops. Lebanese police estimate that some 16,000 acres (6,500 hectares) of hashish and a small amount of opium poppies were planted this year on the sun-baked plain of the northern Bekaa. "Lebanese hashish is the best in the world, better than Turkey and Afghanistan," says Ali, a Bekaa farmer standing in his field of knee-high hashish plants, the spiky saw-toothed cannabis leaves swaying gently...
...eradication process over the past five years has not worked. This year, it was a farce.' ANTONIO MARIA COSTA, executive director of the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime, on Afghanistan's record opium harvest this year after President Hamid Karzai's repeated opposition to spraying herbicide on the poppy fields in his country...
ANTONIO MARIA COSTA, executive director of the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime, on Afghanistan's record opium harvest after President Hamid Karzai's repeated opposition to spraying pesticide on his country's poppy fields...
...autobiographical, illustrating the evolution of his views away from what he refers to as “the Red Dream.” Wang says that the film was not released in China because of its short form. But he also speculates that its depiction of political clashes, the opium war, and the 1989 student massacre at Tiananmen Square made it too controversial for the Chinese government’s approval. Unlike Wang, Riedl is a first-time documentary director. Riedl, who worked in theater and dramatic film before delving into the genre with...
...October 1860, during the Second Opium War, French and British troops sacked the summer palace. The destruction was one of the most humiliating moments of China's long period of colonial subjugation. During the attack the bronze heads were pried from their plinths and the looters took them around the world. The whereabouts of just seven are now known, and with this purchase five of those will be in China's hands. "Bringing back all the things from the Summer Palace, it's a kind of revenge, a way to avenge the humiliation," says Chiu Che Bing, a Paris-based...