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Despite being synonymous with lighthearted fun and the start of the summer cookout season, Memorial Day is also a lot more ...
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The Ministry of Interior said on Sunday that so far 2,183 acres of poppy fields across nine provinces have been destroyed in the ongoing campaign to rid the country of poppies. According to the ...
Police in the southern Shan State township of Pinlaung say they eradicated more than 7,600 acres of poppy fields, or 95 percent of the local crop, in 2013, reports Mizzima. “We started destroying the ...
A Chilliwack-area farmer is now plowing down seven acres of what’s become the largest opium poppy bust ever in Canada. Chilliwack RCMP’s drug section on Monday showed up at a rural property in the ...