News in Asia

Buôn Ma Thuột Coffee Festival is now on in Dak Lak province in Vietnam's Central Highlands. The festival kicked off on March, 9th, and will continue till this Saturday, March, 12th.

Thanh Hoa City in Thanh Hoa province in the North Central Coast region of Vietnam invites visitors to join a tour that explores an ancient village of Dong Son.

An expansion project of Bangkok's second international airport, Don Mueang, is well under way and is expected to be completed by 2024. The expansion will help the airport to cope with the constantly increasing number of passengers flying with low-cost airlines.

Thailand’s Department of Tourism under the Ministry of Tourism and Sports has put forward an initiative to develop Thailand as the world's prime location for movie production. 

Department of Tourism of the Philippines says that Boracay citation reflects acceptance of reforms in the country's tourist sector. Recently Boracay was named one of the Aisa's best beaches by TripAdvisor 2019 Travelers' Choice Award.

Ho Chi Minh (Saigon), Vung Tau, and Cam Ranh in Vietnam will soon get three new Avani hotels. Thailand-based AVANI Hotels & Resorts chain now has 23 properties in 15 countries, mainly in Thailand, Vietnam, and Sri Lanka.

According to Narita International Airport Corp., Narita International Airport in Tokyo, Japan will become the first airport in Japan to start using facial recognition instead of usual paper documents for boarding.  

Hotels and other lodging facilities in Japan reported the historical high in numbers of foreign visitors in 2018. According to the data of the Japan Tourism Agency, the estimated number of foreign lodgers in Japan hit a record 88.59 million last year.

The first ever Six Flags Theme Park in China will be opened in Jiaxing, Zhejiang, an eastern coastal province of China. It will be located on the shore in Hangzhou Bay, some 90 km from Shanghai city centre.

One of every ten airline seats in China are handled by the two Shanghai airports, Shanghai Pudong Airport and Shanghai Hongqiao Airport. Half of China's top-10 busiest air routes originate here, too.

The Cabinet approved extention of validity period for visas on arrival in Sri Lanka for several nations. Now visitors illegible for obtaining VOA in Sri Lanka can stay in the country up to 6 months. 

We are excited to announce that 12Go has launched more than 3,500 routes of bus and ferry inventory in Australia in February. Now the country's largest bus transport network and ferries are open for booking with us.

The high-speed railway project between Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, and Nong Khai, a city at the border with Laos in the northeastern part of the country, should be completed by 2023.

This weekend in Bangkok will see Asean Ethnic Festival kicking off in the capital with over 100 performers from across Asia showing their ethnic dances to the public.

Lion Air, an Indonesian low-cost carrier and the largest privately run airline in Indonesia based in Jakarta, laucnhed thier promotional #liburanmakinmurah (vacationing gets cheaper) program for Jakarta–Medan and Jakarta–Jayapura routes effective from March, 1. 

Nansha District in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China, will see launch of a huge international cruise home port later this year, the official opening expected in November. It will be one of the largest ports of its kind with four berths along 1.6 km shoreline and covering an area of 760,000 square meters.

Mount Slamet in Purbalingga Regency, Central Java, Indonesia, locally known as Gunung Slamet, is opened to hikers again after the ecosystem recovery efforts of the past several months started to yield results and weather conditions also improved. 

A new route of the national flagship carrier of Indonesia, Garuda Indonesia, now connects Jakarta to Tasikmalaya. The maiden flight was launched on March, 2.

A member of the Yangon Region Hluttaw’s Transportation, Communications, Construction and Industry Committee revealed a plan put forward by China Railway Engineering Co Ltd (CREC) to construct a new circular railway in Yangon.

The latest survey of the Wildlife Conservation Society of Myanmar (WCS Myanmar) held between February, 6 and February, 16 says that currently there 72 Irrawaddy Dolphins in the Ayeyarwady River.