The list for 2025 and several special awards were announced at a live ceremony in Macau, featuring bars from 20 destinations ...

Charles Dickens visited Georgetown in 1842. "The heights of this neighborhood," he wrote, "are very picturesque; and are free, I should conceive, from some of the insalubrities of Washington. The air, ...

1880s opium trail infected city-folk and pioneers alike, across states and the Dakota Territory From Deadwood, South Dakota, to Bottineau, North Dakota, and east to Duluth and St. Paul, opium ...

The longevity of the Taliban’s opium ban hinges on a multifaceted approach.

Why are Afghan opium prices soaring? Explained In 2024, opium prices reached ₹ 65,486 per kilogram, a tenfold growth from ₹ 6,535 per kilogram in 2022 when the Taliban government banned poppy ...

While synthetic opiods are a relatively new class of drugs, opium has a long destructive history in trade wars and warfare, beginning with the First Opium War.

Now, the four-bedroom, 3.5-bath home has many modern conveniences: a full-sized steam room; underwater lights in the boathouse swimming pool; and an old opium den that has been retrofitted to ...

It is an appealing, if somewhat disquieting paradox: the opium trade that impoverished and crippled India also financed and helped forge the modern state.

The Thai towns of the notorious Golden Triangle are taking advantage of their opium-producing history with attractions centred on the drug and military leaders who fought over it.

San Francisco's prohibitionists worried that opium dens were patronized by "young men and women of respectable parentage" as well as "the vicious and the depraved." ...

Opium dens, dodgy dentists & dog meat cafes – Inside ‘world’s most crowded city’ where 50,000 people lived for 40 years Despite the city's grim reality, some residents found it peaceful ...