1.   And if you think China can develop without us, well, then the opium trade must have come back to your shores.

2.   Arlacchi said that Ahmed Shah Massoud, the former leader of the Northern Alliance, had discussed his interest in curbing the opium trade.

3.   Diplomats speculate that in return for cooling the rebellion by the Shan minority against Burma, Khun Sa will be allowed to keep a hand in the opium trade.

4.   For al-Qaida terrorists, the officials warned, the opium trade might also be a way to move money or fund attacks.

5.   Jardine Matheson Holdings Ltd, which controlled the opium trade in China in the last century, is again trying to build its future there.

6.   Macau also had its share of the opium trade.

7.   Official Chinese lamentations over British perfidy neatly overlook the venality and collaboration of a huge measure of Qing dynasty officialdom with the opium trade.

8.   Since then, fighting has continued between various factions vying for power, and, sadly, profits in the opium trade.

9.   Taliban officials, while denying any involvement in the opium trade, concede that it is flourishing.

10.   The only way to equip and feed his troops, he said, was through the opium trade.