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.

In the past two decades, South-East Asia averaged 8.5 per cent gross domestic product growth, and foreign direct investment flow into the region grew nearly fourteen-fold. While China and the US have ...

Figure a: A paleogeographic map of South Asia and The Sundaland in Southeast Asia over 20,000 years ago. These lands were occupied by their respective earliest settlers. Figure b: Rising sea level ...

In the past two decades, South-East Asia averaged 8.5 per cent gross domestic product growth, and foreign direct investment flow into the region grew nearly fourteen-fold.