By the early 1960s, Southeast Asia is home to much of the world’s heroin production, due largely to the settlement in northeastern Burma of CIA-trained nationalist Chinese forces in the wake of the failed operation to invade Communist China.

The Chinese strongmen have terrorized local villagers into growing opium for them and made the so-called Golden Triangle the world’s leader in opium production.

Western avant-garde influenced Japanese writer Abe Kobo publishes his surrealistic urban nightmare The Woman in the Dunes.

Underground organizations of both communities revive during 1961 and 1962.

EOKA and the TMT begin training again, smuggling weapons in from Greece and Turkey, and working closely with national military contingents from Greece and Turkey that are stationed on the island in accordance with the Treaty of Alliance.

Friction increases in 1962 regarding the status of municipalities.

Each side accuses the other of constitutional infractions, and the Supreme Constitutional Court is asked to rule on municipalities and taxes.

The court's decisions were unsatisfactory to both sides, and an impasse is reached.

Government under the terms of the 1960 constitution has come to appear impossible to many Cypriots.

Saudi relations with Egypt have often been strained following the rise to power of Egypt's Pan-Arab nationalist president, Gamal Abdel Nasser.

Egyptian propaganda has made frequent attacks on the Saudi system of royal government.

Egyptian troops lend immediate support to the Yemen Arab Republican Army in Yemen's civil war starting in 1962, which make tensions between Saudi Arabia and Egypt become more acute.

The Saudis, together with Iran and Jordan, help the Yemeni royalist forces against the Egyptian-backed Yemen republic.

Abu Dhabi begins to export offshore oil in 1962.

The British had set up a separate agency in Abu Dhabi town in 1961 for Abu Dhabi affairs only.

In 1962, Chinese Communist forces invade India, then withddraw.