Laos sits at the heart of mainland Southeast Asia, sharing borders with China, Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, and Myanmar. That strategic geography turns the country into both a corridor and a destination for transnational organized crime, where cross-border flows of goods, money, and people intersect with weak enforcement and powerful informal networks. Beyond headlines about casinos …
Yusuf Gökdemir
Ankara robotics engineer who migrated to Berlin for synth festivals. Yusuf blogs on autonomous drones, Anatolian rock history, and the future of urban gardening. He practices breakdance footwork as micro-exercise between coding sprints.