Nathan Thompson

Nathan Thompson is an FP contributor based in Southeast Asia.

Stories by Nathan Thompson
Worried passengers wait at Wattay Airport in Vientiane, Laos, on March 19.

Flying Home During the Pandemic: Expensive, Demanding, and Dangerous
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Visitors to Luang Prabang town, Laos, a world heritage site, are drastically lower than usual

Claims of a Coronavirus-Free Laos Are Probably Fiction
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Seyil Eldos with his three younger brothers on the outskirts of Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, on May 17. Eldos’s biological father died of a heart attack, and his mother married her husband’s younger brother, as is traditional. Eldos’s three brothers were born to the second marriage.

A Family Stranded by China’s Camps
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