2003

Images

 

Bank crackup worse than drug crackdown

 

Army

 

Burma

 

Banking scare traced to drugs

 

Big fish in Shan State opt to wait out

 

Disgraced commander gets 75 years

 

Better harvest claimed by farmers in Southern Shan State

 

Briefs

 

Community

 

Corn making way for pop

 

Drug labs move deep

 

Historic town needs new handle

 

Drugs

 

Deadline stampedes Wa into growing more

 

Crisis awaits at Wa deadline

 

Locals deny border drug

 

"Crop substitution" a success in the south

 

Local druglord

 

Drug mart moves west

 

Junta tenets obstacle to making headway

 

New joint military

 

Hundreds of suspect families flee Thailand

 

Few relocated Wa returning to the north

 

Drugs Panghsang recalls men ahead of crackdown An order issued by Panghsang one week in advance of Rangoon

 

Exotic high yield paddy turn out poor

 

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Growers claim bumper harvest

 

Junta spooks in league with the trade

 

More labs move deep

 

Khun Sa follower grabbed by

 

Farmers drive a hard bargain

 

Kings come and go but

 

More poppy fields reported

 

Green Shans emulate rich hilltribes

 

License to raise poppies

 

Khun Sa cronies look for new patrons

 

Khun Sa crony

 

Mules carry Thai currency

 

Rangoon bargains with Wa

 

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Officer

 

Mongla

 

Rival gang suppressed by Wa

 

Poppies blossom in the north

 

Shan rebels deny dealing in drugs

 

Old Wa lab gets new home

 

Packaging of speed just over the border

 

Shan rebels rejoin war on drugs

 

Sickness and death hit Wa

 

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Thai academic

 

Six more community treatment homes on the Chinese border

 

Speeds awaits to be sped across Thailand

 

Speed II comes to town

 

Speed stranded at the border

 

Speed being made to order

 

Speed vindicates rebels

 

Wa disclaimer rejected

 

Top militia chief is top drug producer

 

Wa extend drug free deadline

 

Transit point from Burma raided  One Thai soldier killed

 

Thai drug

 

Thailand to re

 

UN agency figure spurned by locals

 

Wa learn Chinese in Thai

 

Wa project chief explains himself

 

We death toll goes up to 150

 

Wa spared from terrorist charge but

 

Rebel leader challenges feasibility  of Doi Tung II