by Teuvo Tuomi | Jan 7, 2025 | Laos, News, Southeast Asia, Tourism, Travel, Visas
Laos has officially ended its visa exemption and extended stay policy for several countries, including the Nordic ones. Starting in January, tourists will need to follow standard visa regulations, including 30-day visas on arrival and embassy-issued visas. The special...
by Teuvo Tuomi | Jan 5, 2025 | AI, China, Innovation, News, Technology
Chinese start-up DeepSeek has emerged as “the biggest dark horse” in the open-source large language model (LLM) arena in 2025 with its latest release DeepSeek V3. That assessment came from Jim Fan, a senior research scientist at Nvidia and lead of its AI Agents...
by Teuvo Tuomi | Jan 4, 2025 | Cambodia, Infrastructure, Lifestyle, News, Tourism
The development of a massive integrated entertainment resort in Preah Sihanouk province is progressing well. According to Lai Xiao Bo, the developer’s representative of Bay Investment, the construction of the resort is divided into zones A and B. Zone B’s...
by Teuvo Tuomi | Jan 4, 2025 | Cambodia, Climate, News, Weather
Cambodia’s Department of Water Resources and Meteorology of Oddar Meanchey Province has issued a notice stating that until 13 January the northeast monsoon will blow strongly and will be affecting the Province. The advisory states that this situation will cause...
by Teuvo Tuomi | Jan 3, 2025 | ASEAN, Asia, Aviation, Japan, News, Transportation
Japanese carriers Japan Airlines (JAL) and All Nippon Airways (ANA) were the most punctual airlines in Asia-Pacific on 2024, followed by Singapore Airlines (SIA), according to Cirium, an aviation analytics company. Asia-Pacific winner JAL’s on-time performance came in...
by Teuvo Tuomi | Jan 2, 2025 | Education, News, Society, Thailand
Thailand’s Education Ministry aims to get as many dropouts as possible back to school in 2025 under the government’s Thailand Zero Dropout policy. According to the ministry, over one million children aged 3-18 dropped out in 2024. Of them, 767,304 were...
