Southeast Asia

RESEARCH BLOG

Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand and Myanmar, although representing very different contexts, histories and environments in terms of drug...

Organized crime in Vietnam remains limited and as in other countries of the region, the illicit drug market is mostly non-violent....

Malaysia is a perfect example of the ambiguity that defines Southeast Asian nations in regard to illicit drug policy. While in the...

In Thailand, the illicit drug trade is essentially non-violent, as it is the case in most of the region (with the notable exception of...

According to the 2015 UNODC World Drug Report (WDR), Myanmar has produced over 57 800 hectares of opium poppy in 2013 (UNODC, 2015). More...

In July 1998, a month after the UNGASS 1998 on the “world drug problem” and the signature of the Political Declaration on Drugs (1) (UN...

The home continent of U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon still “bore some of the harshest and most repressive drug policies,”...