Merchants of Madness: The Methamphetamine Explosion in the Golden Triangle apple_store This publication is the initiative

This publication is the initiative of a group of Dutch and Thai scholars who intend to provide access to important Dutch texts about Siam from the VOC period by translating them into English along with a transcript of the original Dutch text

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This book analyzes the systematic construction of the image of the Other

He has published extensively on Laos and Southeast Asia

and its “reawakening

Merchants of Madness: The Methamphetamine Explosion in the Golden Triangle apple_store This publication is the initiativeFor decades, Southeast Asias Golden Trianglewhere the borders of Thailand, Laos, and Burma intersecthas been infamous for its opium and heroin production. But then, in the 1990s, the drug gangs in the Golden Triangle began to produce methamphetamine, a synthetic drug that does not depend on any unreliable crop such as the opium poppy. In Thailand the drug has become known as yaba, madness drug or madness medicine. Unlike heroin, which is a downer,