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HOPONG (SHAN STATE), MYANMAR - Mobile phone signals peter off in the homesteads of Hopong township, reached by gravel-lined roads chiselled into the steep Myanmar mountainside.
Opium used to be a cash crop here until the locals received international aid to grow coffee.
