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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 ...

KUALA LUMPUR – Malaysia will lead efforts to coordinate a regional response in South-east Asia towards US President Donald Trump’s tariffs, the country’s Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said. “ ...

Countries in Southeast Asia were eager for their business and opened their doors. Today, half of all Nike shoes are made in Vietnam. After Trump slapped them with 46% tariffs last week ...

Southeast Asian stocks fell after Asian emerging nations were given some of the biggest tariff increases by US President Donald Trump. Vietnamese shares slid the most in more than two decades.

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 ...