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South East Asia is one of the four birthplaces of the modern oil industry. In 1846 Russian engineers Semyenov and Alekseev drilled the first ever oil well in Baku, then part of the Russian Tsarist ...
Other countries in South-East Asia will follow Thailand’s lead in 2022, up to a point. They will open only popular tourist hotspots to visitors and, even then, only to some nationalities.
The Lowy Institute has unveiled its first South-East Asia Aid Map, which tracks financing for more than 100,000 development projects funded by almost 100 countries and international organisations ...
South-East Asia faces a road safety crisis, with pedestrians, cyclists, and two-wheeler riders accounting for 66% of traffic deaths. WHO urges urgent action to protect vulnerable road users.
NEW DELHI: Hypertension, which continues to be a major public health challenge, is a silent killer that affects over 294 million people across the South-East Asia Region, the WHO said on Friday.
Although they left it to the end, Johor Darul Ta'zim and Buriram United ultimately had their destiny in their own hands. And as the East Region of the AFC Champions League Elite began concluding ...
[SINGAPORE] South-east Asia could this year see the highest number of final investment decisions on gas projects in a decade, which could potentially boost output by 18 per cent, according to Global ...
The flag, portraying a red sun with 16 rays extending outward, is resented by many South Koreans, who still harbor animosity over Japan's 1910-45 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula.
Seoul has asked for the 16-rayed flag – often associated with World War Two and the Imperial Japanese Army – to be banned from next year’s Olympic Games in Tokyo.
All across South-East Asia railways are old and slow, and tend not to connect with one another. The region has only 24,000km of railway lines—roughly the same as Mexico, which has a land mass ...
Many flag bearers for the 2024 Paris Olympics have been announced ahead of the opening ceremony, which will be held on the Seine with boats arranged for each national delegation.
Opinion. South-East Asia and the Wong doctrine. Australia’s energetic foreign minister wants to help the region’s smaller powers maintain a constructive equilibrium with the big ones.