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...The US role in Ukraine’s destabilisation is an old, sad and oft-repeated story of US foreign policy, recalling the US role in destabilising Iran, Congo (today’s DRC), Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Afghanistan...
...Edward White is an FT China correspondent. Kang Buseong is an FT reporter in Seoul Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first...
...In just the past few years, oil and food price surges have led to exchange rate crises in Lebanon, Laos, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan....
...Mongolia and Laos have high debt levels — large shares of which are denominated in foreign currencies — and are vulnerable to global inflation and subsequent exchange rate depreciation....
...Sebastian Strangio, in his book In the Dragon’s Shadow, quotes the strategist and historian Edward Luttwak’s phrase “great-state autism” — the difficulty big powers face in breaking free of entrenched ways...
...Researchers monitoring the Mekong say the mining of sand from the riverbed and the building of new dams upriver in Laos and China are altering the river’s flow, sediment content and even its colour....
...Reporting by Robin Harding, Kana Inagaki, John Reed, Jamie Smyth, Song Jung-a and Edward White...
...missing after entering a cave in Thailand’s northern Chiang Rai province June 26 Three British cave divers arrive, joining a Thai military-led effort that draws volunteers from the US, China, Australia, Laos...
...Edward Luce predicts the allegations of sexual assault made against Brett Kavanaugh, Mr Trump’s Supreme Court nominee will poison Washington....
...Among smaller economies, growth is expected to pick up in Mongolia, Fiji and Myanmar while that of Cambodia, Laos and Timor-Leste is forecast to soften from recent highs....
...The Big Read looks at its efforts from Laos to Brazil....
...The first stage is from the border to Vientiane, the capital of Laos....
...DC organising an anti-war demonstration the day the Weather Underground (of “palling around with” fame) blew up a men’s bathroom in the Capitol to protest against President Richard Nixon’s invasion of Laos...
...Laos. Myanmar. North Korea. And Andorra.” Wow. I didn’t know Andorra had a communist regime, I say. “No, purely because of its size,” says Ownby smoothly....
...This tribal diaspora from south-east Asia – the Hmong from Laos, Cambodia and other countries won refugee status after fighting alongside the US in the Vietnam war – is now encircling Eastwood’s house....
...Demand from India and Thailand is behind a handful of hydro-electric projects that are set to benefit Laos, Bhutan and Nepal....
...John Edwards, a Democratic presidential hopeful, said Congress would be guilty of "betrayal" if it did not exercise its constitutional powers to stop the war....
...The couple, who also lived in Zambia, Thailand, Nepal and Laos, did the same in other locations....
...There were also collaborations with furniture designer Edward Wormley, the Dansk china company, and retail chains such as Macy’s and Marshall Field....
...Patrick Couwenberg, a former Los Angeles Superior Court Judge, claimed that he received a Purple Heart after being wounded in the groin while working as a CIA operative in Laos....
..."Telecommunications is becoming more and more international," says Edward Deng, president of Huawei's European business. "If the company wants to survive it has to do business internationally."...
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