Nathan Thompson

Nathan Thompson is an FP contributor based in Southeast Asia.

Articles by Nathan Thompson

Fishermen lay their nets on the Mekong River close to the site of an approved dam site near Luang Prabang, Laos, on Feb. 8 2020.

In Laos, a Dubious Dam Threatens Luang Prabang

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Nathan Thompson

July 25, 2021, 6:00 AM

A Thai Buddhist monk gets a shot of Sinovac vaccine

Southeast Asia Had COVID-19 Under Control. What Went Wrong?

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Nathan Thompson

May 26, 2021, 10:41 AM

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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Nathan Thompson

April 3, 2020, 5:09 PM

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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Nathan Thompson

March 20, 2020, 9:57 AM

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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Nathan Thompson

October 6, 2019, 2:11 PM

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