Commentary / World | The Year Ahead: Reckonings Jan 9, 2022
by Anne Case and Angus Deaton
While many commentators with alternative calculations have questioned the extent of rising income inequality, none has succeeded in dismissing the trend.
Rugby Jan 2, 2022
Japan Rugby League One player Blake Ferguson arrested on drug charges
Blake Ferguson, a former Australian rugby league international who recently switched codes, has been arrested in Japan on suspicion of drug offenses, according to his club, NEC Green Rockets Tokatsu. The hulking 31-year-old winger spent more than a decade in Australia's elite National Rugby League ...
World Dec 13, 2021
Haiti’s leader kept a list of drug traffickers. His assassins came for it.
by Maria Abi-Habib
In the months before his murder, President Jovenel Moïse took a number of steps to fight drug and arms smugglers. Some officials now fear he was killed for it.
Commentary / World Dec 8, 2021
Negotiated prices on many medications would introduce an important new form of cost control in uncompetitive corners of the U.S. prescription-drug market.
World Dec 2, 2021
Family members of victims have accused authorities of being ineffective and have undertaken their searches in various "extermination camps" despite the dangers it poses.
Commentary / World Nov 24, 2021
Taliban turning Afghanistan into narco-terrorist state
by Brahma Chellaney
Afghanistan accounts for 85% of the global acreage under opium cultivation, making the Taliban the world’s largest drug cartel.
Commentary / World Nov 7, 2021
COVID-19 drugs will change the way we live with the virus
by Therese Raphael
New COVID-19 drug approvals couldn’t be timelier as hospitals face massive backlogs of delayed procedures.
Asia Pacific Oct 20, 2021
Philippines to review thousands more 'drug war' killings, justice minister says
by Karen Lema
Recent details challenge the official police narrative that says the thousands shot dead were all drug dealers who resisted arrest.
World Oct 20, 2021
Under Taliban rule, Kabul's drug addicts forced into withdrawal
Afghanistan produces around 90% of the world's heroin, and an estimated 11% of its population of 34 million are believed to be drug users.
Business / Corporate Oct 8, 2021
COVID-19 pill sales could hit $2 billion, drugmaker Shionogi says
by Lisa Du and Kanako Matsuyama
Competition to snag a piece of the COVID pill market is fierce, as the world adjusts to the virus being endemic.
National / Crime & Legal Aug 21, 2021
37% of Tokyo minors involved in police cases linked to pot say cannabis is not harmful
Some respondents noted that cannabis has been legalized in some countries, while others said there's a low potential for addiction when it comes to cannabis use.
World Aug 21, 2021
Afghanistan is by far the world's biggest producer of heroin, supplying between 80% to 90% of global output, making the drug policies of the new Taliban-led government of crucial importance.