BANGKOK: Southeast Asian drug cartels are diversifying the narcotics they produce, the UN’s crime agency warned Wednesday, with more than 160 new highs hitting the market in the last eight years.

The Golden Triangle—where Laos, southern China, Thailand and Myanmar intersect—is the world’s second largest drug producer after Latin America.

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