https://www.scmp.com/rss/507298/feed Crystal Reid is a British journalist who has been working across Asia for more than a decade. She writes on a wide range of subjects, from business and economics, to lifestyle and travel. She's had bylines in Marie Claire, the Associated Press, Grazia, CNN and several British newspapers. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com At first, the journey from Luang Prabang International Airport into the city feels like the Southeast Asia of 30 years ago, before tourism and commercialisation brought beer-branded singlets and rowdy bars to even the most unremarkable towns. In Laos’ former royal capital – a charming, Unesco-protected hodgepodge of golden-domed wats, teak-shuttered schools and muddy-green mountains – women sit in roadside corrugated iron shacks, machetes at hand to hack open a coconut or thwack an unwieldy... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3102795/china-laos-railway-way-out-poverty-or-white?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3102795/china-laos-railway-way-out-poverty-or-white?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 26 Sep 2020 01:15:13 +0000