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The Death of Lo Hsing Han: Burma’s Heroin Godfather
Prior to his death, Lo Hsing Han was one of Myanmar’s premier business personalities, with wealth so vast that it is difficult to estimate its true extent. Lo Hsing Han’s Asia World conglomerate’s business transactions often surpassed those of the actual economy of Myanmar itself. The problem with Lo Hsing Han’s wealth, and his rise […]
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Heroin: The Lifeblood of Tajikistan’s Economy
- April 29, 2012
- Afghanistan
- Asia
- CCCP
- Central Asia
- Drug trade
- drugs trafficking
- Dushanbe
- Emomali Rakhmon
- former Soviet Republic
- Heroin
- institutionalized corruption
- opiates
- Opium
- patronage networks
- Russia
- Silk Road
- Soviet Union
- Tajikistan
- Tajikistan's Drug Control Agency
- UN Office on Drugs and Crime
- United Nations
- USSR
Less than two decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, former Soviet republic Tajikistan can best be classified as an economic catastrophe: Tajikistan is dependent on remittances from Tajiks living abroad and this is equivalent to roughly 45% of GDP. Further, poverty is extremely widespread, with half of the country’s population of eight million […]
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