1980s

  • Pakistan – An Era Past

    ByCharlie Portlock

    Most recently a Director of VanEck in New York, Tom Butcher has travelled extensively, particularly in South and Southeast Asia. Fortunately, at a little after four in the morning during a severe thunderstorm, the sole policeman at an empty Zero Point in Islamabad flagged down one of the very few vehicles on the road and…

  • Laos – An Era Past

    ByCharlie Portlock

    Most recently a Director of VanEck in New York, Tom Butcher has travelled extensively, particularly in South and Southeast Asia. As it is now, back in the mid ‘80s, the Isan region of Thailand’s northeast was poor. But I loved it not only for the access it offered to the Mekong, but also for the…