There are lots of reasons the issue of freight is fraught in landlocked central asian countries. Add to that list sanctions on neighboring russia, and that makes shipping goods even harder. We examine the plans to plot new rail routes across the region. And here in london, thousands have been lining up overnight to see queen elizabeth, the second lying in state. Our correspondent asks whether a good old fashioned cue is the best way to allicate a scarce regal resource.
Five years after a brutal campaign that drove nearly 750,000 out of Myanmar and into Bangladesh, conditions for the Muslim minority remain appalling on both sides of the border. Central Asian countries are laying plans for railways that would fill their coffers, distance Russia and empower China. And the economics lessons in London’s queue to see Queen Elizabeth II.
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