101 東方 – Golden Triangle – 12 六月 08 部分 2

For decades, opium production has been dropping in Thailand, with widespread eradication drives and campaigns to encourage farmers to plant other crops.

Meanwhile, the Golden Triangle of Laos, Myanmar and Thailand appear to be building an increasingly lucrative trade in methamphetamines.

With Thailand’s government launching a new campaign ‘to free the country from drugs’, 101 East asks if Thailand can ever win the war against the drug barons.