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By bno - Bangkok Office Countries across Southeast Asia kicked off annual water festival celebrations on April 13, but in Myanmar, the holiday spirit was muted as the country continues to recover from ...

Revelers dressed in colorful shirts and goggles fired water guns at each other at the start of the Thai New Year on Sunday, a ...

Neighboring Thailand, where the holiday is called Songkran, was expected to celebrate with revelry as usual. It sees a mass ...

The United States is getting ready to host the Club World Cup, an international soccer tournament designed to bring together ...

China recorded 126 million domestic trips during the three-day Qingming Festival holiday that ended Sunday, a 6.3 percent increase from the previous ...

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Countries in the export-driven region of Southeast Asia have been hit with particularly high tariffs in the global round of levies announced by US President Donald Trump. Six of the 10 Southeast ...

During the two-week Eid al-Fitr holiday in 2024, Indonesia, the largest economy in Southeast Asia, recorded 7.4 million passengers, a 3% increase compared to the same period in 2023. The ...

Over 2,700 people are dead following a magnitude 7.7 earthquake in Southeast Asia. The quake's epicenter was in Myanmar. It was also followed by a strong aftershock. BANGKOK - The death toll in an ...

In May 2018, the Council on Foreign Relations’ Southeast Asia program convened a workshop to examine the direction of the U.S.-Southeast Asia relationship from the present to 2030. The workshop ...