http:// www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/2141464/mr-big-wildlife-trafficking-could-elusive-laos
Treasury Sanctions the Zhao Wei Transnational Criminal Organization
https:// home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm0272
Texas A&M Shuts Down 2 Chinese Learning Institutes Deemed National Security Threats
https:// www.dailysignal.com/2018/04/18/texas-am-shuts-down-2-chinese-learning-institutes-deemed-national-security-threats/
The Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone
A special economic zone (SEZ) is an area in which business and trade laws are different from the rest of the country. SEZs are located within a country's national borders, and their aims include: increased trade, increased investment, job creation and effective administration. To encourage businesses to set up in the zone, financial policies are introduced. These policies typically regard investing, taxation, trading, quotas, customs and labour regulations. Additionally, companies may be offered tax holidays, where upon establishing in a zone they are granted a period of lower taxation.
https:// iias.asia/the-newsletter/article/chinese-special-economic-zone-northern-laos
https:// www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2016/05/lawless-playgrounds-laos-160504120318409.html
https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_economic_zone
and the Swiss guard the Pope
April 19th
https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_19
1985 – Two hundred ATF and FBI agents lay siege to the compound of the white supremacist survivalist group The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord in Arkansas; the CSA surrenders two days later.
1989 – A gun turret explodes on the USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors.
1993 – The 51-day FBI siege of the Branch Davidian building in Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. 76 Davidians including 18 children under the age of 10 died in the fire.
1995 – Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, USA, is bombed, killing 168 people including 19 children under the age of 6.
2005 – Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is elected to the papacy and becomes Pope Benedict XVI.
2013 – Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is killed in a shootout with police. His brother Dzhokhar is later captured hiding in a boat inside a backyard in the suburb of Watertown.