The 'most successful drug kingpin of all time' was recently named by Time magazine and below we look back at the monarch's ...

Queen Victoria reigned for 63 years but the monarch was also major player in the opium trade, and she has now been named the ...

A century ago, China faced an opium epidemic. According to official statistics, almost one quarter of Chinese men consumed opium in 1906, and around 5 per cent of the total Chinese population was ...

Akeso is Chinese. ... As a consequence, Western drugmakers are increasingly looking east for ideas. Because of expiring drug patents, they stand to lose as much as $140bn a year in sales by 2030.