by VF | Apr 12, 2022 | ASEAN, Culture, Lifestyle, Travel
Songkran is the traditional Thai New Year festival. It is a celebration that embraces goodwill, love, compassion. and thankfulness, using water as the means of expression. The word Songkran derives from Sanskrit and means to move or step forward. Songkran takes place...
by VF | Feb 25, 2022 | ASEAN, Asia, Health, Technology
Bangladesh, Indonesia, Pakistan, and Serbia will also receive support from the hub in South Africa to develop messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccines, the WHO says. “Those countries were vetted by a group of experts and proved that they could absorb the technology...
by VF | Jan 12, 2022 | ASEAN, Asia, Health, News
Underreporting and extensive social lockdowns could explain why many Southeast Asian countries have recorded fewer cases of dengue fever in 2021 than previous years, experts say. Data from the World Health Organization (WHO) suggests that several countries are...
by VF | Dec 19, 2021 | ASEAN, Entertainment, Lifestyle
Thailand’s southern traditional Nora dance with the signature long and curly metal fingernail tips, has been listed by UNESCO among this year’s intangible heritages. Nora dance became the third UNESCO-listed Thai intangible heritage, following Khon dance in...
by VF | Dec 17, 2021 | ASEAN, Food & Drinks, Health, News
Eleven types of rice from Thailand, the US, China, India, Vietnam and Myanmar participated in the competition. It was already the seventh time that Thai rice won the main trophy. Thailand is one of the top exporters of rice in the world. Its rice exports are expected...
by VF | Dec 7, 2021 | ASEAN, Asia, Business, News, Visions
In the late 19th Century, France and Great Britain had Siam surrounded from Burma (Myanmar) to the West and French Indochina to the West (Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam). To the south was British Malaya (Malaysia). An eleven-week war with France in 1893 and considerable...
