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Insight: Afghans turn to AK-47, fearing Taliban return or civil war

August 23, 2021 at 7:35 p.m.

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan father-of-four Mohammad Nasir has a secret he's been keeping from his family. The aid worker pulls a television bench out from the living-room wall of his...

Insight: Afghans turn to AK-47, fearing Taliban return or civil war

August 22, 2019 at 7:36 a.m.

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan father-of-four Mohammad Nasir has a secret he's been keeping from his family. The aid worker pulls a television bench out from the living-room wall of his...

Kidnap gangs use leaked bank details to prey on Afghan tycoons

August 22, 2019 at 7:35 a.m.

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan construction magnate Haji Asadullah Ghaznawi was dragged from his office with a gun to his head and locked up in a slaughterhouse for almost three weeks....

Kidnap gangs use leaked bank details to prey on Afghan tycoons

August 22, 2019 at 7:34 a.m.

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan construction magnate Haji Asadullah Ghaznawi was dragged from his office with a gun to his head and locked up in a slaughterhouse for almost three weeks....

Myanmar’s Thein Sein, junta henchman to radical reformer

August 23, 2021 at 5:44 p.m.

BANGKOK (Reuters) - There is a Jekyll-and-Hyde quality to President Thein Sein, the bookish-looking former general Barack Obama will meet on Monday during the first visit by a U.S. president...

Myanmar’s Thein Sein, junta henchman to radical reformer

August 22, 2019 at 6:56 a.m.

BANGKOK (Reuters) - There is a Jekyll-and-Hyde quality to President Thein Sein, the bookish-looking former general Barack Obama will meet on Monday during the first visit by a U.S. president...

After decades behind bamboo curtain, Laos to join WTO

November 3, 2021 at 4:06 p.m.

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Isolated for decades, impoverished and landlocked, Laos is not an obvious choice for investors. But the Communist country of 6.4 million people hopes to change that with...

After decades behind bamboo curtain, Laos to join WTO

August 22, 2019 at 6:31 a.m.

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Isolated for decades, impoverished and landlocked, Laos is not an obvious choice for investors. But the Communist country of 6.4 million people hopes to change that with...

Run on deposits gives Myanmar’s fledgling banks a fright

December 24, 2018 at 8:00 p.m.

YANGON/BANGKOK (Reuters) - Panic set in, queues formed and depositors scrambled to withdraw savings. A brief run on Myanmar's largest bank last week highlights what economists and academics say is...

Insight: Disconnected for decades, Myanmar poised for telecoms boom

August 23, 2021 at 2:04 p.m.

YANGON (Reuters) - Blackberrys and iPhones aren't much use in Myanmar, where its only network is frequently jammed, data services are scarce, prices extortionate, lines crackly and most phones don't...

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