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Under their rule, the impoverished backwater was transformed into a flashy hub of casinos and red-light districts.

But exploiting these giant reserves remains complicated in the impoverished states with harsh and remote terrains.

What the play most painfully illustrates is that for women like these—impoverished or politically oppressed—appealing options are nonexistent.

AFP spoke to relatives of four men from impoverished families who travelled to Russia to join its army, three of whom are officially missing.

The family is among a handful of mafias that rose to power in the 2000s and transformed the impoverished backwater town of Laukkaing into a lucrative hub of casinos and red-light districts.