Caught between conflict and survival, Myanmar's displaced communities are turning to poppy farming, fuelling a booming opium trade in the war-torn nation.

The red flower is closely tied to Remembrance ... The opening stanza reads: In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks ...

The destruction brought by the Napoleonic wars of the early 19th Century transformed bare land into fields of blood red poppies, growing around the bodies of the fallen soldiers. In late 1914 ...

The home town of avid Manchester United supporter Poppy Atkinson turned red in memory of the youngster tragically killed in a ...

Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar’s remote poppy fields, displaced farmer Aung Hla describes the narcotic crop as his only prospect in a country made barren by conflict. The 35-year ...