KAYAH STATE, Myanmar (Reuters) — At a remote farm about two hours away from Koikaw, capital of the northern Kayah State of Myanmar, farmers scrape out raw opium from the poppies they’ve grown. They are part of an illicit drug trade in the Mekong region. Myanmar, Laos and Thailand make up the so-called Golden Triangle, which churns out a quarter of the world’s opium. Myanmar produced an estimated 647 tons of opium in 2015, second […]