Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar's remote poppy fields ... Aung Hla agreed. With the war, he said, "we don't have any choice." ...

“The only war we need to wage is a war against hatred and division,” he added. Myanmar spent decades under military rule from 1962 to 2011 after its independence from the United ...

Four years on, the United Nations has said Myanmar is mired in a "polycrisis ... Aung Hla agreed. With the war, he said, "we don't have any choice".