Article: Soldiers in opium war.(News)

Article: Opium war ; Britain's battlefields Part One: The ...
The Independent on Sunday;  January 21, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... the Taliban insurgency, but contributes to endemic violence and corruption, reaching to the highest levels of President Hamid Karzai's administration. Afghanistan produces over nine-10ths of the world's illicit opium, according to the UN Office on ...

Article: Karzai's opium war may succeed Some Afghans heed ...
Chicago Sun-Times;  November 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... could be a first sign that Afghans outside the capital, Kabul, are following the writ of law laid down by Prime Minister Hamid Karzai. "Now there is a government. They came around and told us not to plant or they will arrest us," says farmer Ghaza Gul ...

Article: Ending an Opium War; Poppies and Afghan Recovery ...
The Washington Post;  January 16, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... poppy production grew last year by more than 60 percent, as The Post reported last month. So central is the problem that Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, has called opium a "cancer" worse than terrorism -- and crop-spraying may make things worse ...

Article: 'Very bad' news on opium war: UN drug report finds ...
Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL);  September 3, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... country could be taken down by this whole drugs problem," said Doug Wankel, the U.S. drug czar in Afghanistan. President Hamid Karzai said he was disappointed by the increase in poppies. "Regrettably, over the last year, our efforts to fight narcotics ...

Article: Video Game "Opium War" to Go on Sale
Xinhua English Newswire;  June 3, 1997 ;     338 words ...The video game of "Opium War" will hit Chinese and overseas markets ... Research Center of Qinghua University. "Opium War" is aimed at teaching players about China's humiliating history of the Opium War and inspiring patriotic spirit among ...

Article: Opium War Heroes Memorialized by East China ...
Xinhua English Newswire;  June 20, 1997 ;     403 words ... ... 000 officers and men who died in the Opium War (18401842) in east China's Zhejiang ... by historians as the bloodiest of the Opium War, launched by Britain to protect its ... future. Producers of the new movie "Opium War" visited Zhoushan and talked with local ...

Article: Opium War TV Series to Be Broadcast Nationwide
Xinhua English Newswire;  June 3, 1997 ;     418 words ...A 26-part TV series about Opium War (1840-1842) will be broadcast first ... television stations across the country. The Opium War, launched by the British government ... series. Guangdong province, where the Opium War broke out, invested 16 million yuan ...