Thousands of years ago, the art of making lotus silk was known, but then it was lost. However, a few small-scale industries in Myanmar, Cambodia, and, recently, Vietnam are reviving this age-old tradition. You may be asking yourself why lotus silk is so expensive, yet people could make it before the age of technology. Of ...
China’s investment in Southeast Asia has risen significantly in 2019, according to a report by Refinitiv, a Finnish tech company. Investments totaled US$1.78 billion during the first seven months of this year, which is eight times the amount invested in the region in the same period last year. Chinese tech investments “The saturation of the ...
The foreign minister of Malaysia, Saifuddin Abdullah, wants his country’s navy to remain prepared to deal with any conflict in the South China Sea. His statement, made at the lower house of the Parliament, is seen as an indication that Malaysia might be thinking of moving away from the policy of non-militarization of the South ...
Though China has been aggressively pursuing investment opportunities in Southeast Asia, it is seeing an increasing resistance from the countries in the region over its One Belt, One Road initiative. And one of the main concerns of Southeast Asian nations is the terrible reputation that Chinese investments have. The Chinese are known to provide loans ...
Southeast Asia is one of the most genetically diverse regions of the planet. But scientists never had a concrete theory that clearly explained the ancestral history of the region. The traditional view of Southeast Asian ancestry has always credited an ancient society of hunter-gatherers called Hòabìnhian as being the people who populated the region some ...
The first whole-genome analyses of ancient human DNA from Southeast Asia reveal that there were at least three major waves of human migration into the region over the last 50,000 years. The research, published online on May 17 in Science, complements what is known from archaeological, historical, and linguistic studies of Southeast Asia, defined as ...
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