#se asia

[lotusinjadewell]

Cao Bằng, Vietnam. Credit to Tiến Chu.

[whyweseek]

Sunset on a Thai beach

[not-your-asian-fantasy]

People perform a traditional dance during the opening ceremony of the Thingyan Water Festival in Yangon, Myanmar, 13 April 2024. The annual water festival, known as Thingyan in Myanmar, sees people gathering to celebrate by splashing water and throwing powder at each other as a symbol of cleansing and washing away the sins from the past year. The festival marks the start of the traditional New Year and is similarly celebrated in countries such as Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia.

Mizzima Myanmar News

[35mmpixz]

Vang Vieng, Laos 2018

[5thcloud]

សួស្តីឆ្នាំថ្មី !

Happy cambodian/thai/laos new year!

our new year is in spring from April 14-16 :]

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Personal art, ok to reblog, dont use art

[boyshistorymoments]

[iraqdinar]

Vietnamese Dong Prices Are Way Down

Vietnamese Currency Trading at Less than $66/million in Some Places

Prices in U.S. dollars are way, way down for Vietnamese dong. For the first time in the last two years, a cursory glance at one’s options for purchasing Vietnamese dong online yields far more results than has traditionally been the case, with prices serving as less of a barrier-to-entry than they traditionally have over the last several years as banks, credit unions, other MSBs and currency exchanges have increasingly declined to deal in Vietnamese currency.

VND is being advertised for less than $66 per million. For perspective, many online sellers were asking and receiving as much as $150 for one million dong as recently as 2020. That’s a nearly 250% decrease for dong retailers.

As with all “exotic” currencies, these prices tend to be much more fluid and much more volatile than most foreign currencies. A month from today it could very well be next-to-impossible to find certain denominations available commercially, and prices could be back up above $100 per million, where they’ve been for most of the last 2-3 years.

If there are any other noteworthy developments of the currencies rumored to be on the precipice of a redenominating or revaluing, I’ll post about it.

[pressnewsagencyllc]

Chinese Air Con Firms Focus on Branding, Low-Tariff Plants in SE Asia to Hike Exports

(Yicai) March 26 — Chinese makers of air conditioning equipment are increasing their emphasis on branding and accelerating the shift of production to Southeast Asia to avert hiked tariffs to stick to their market shares amid sluggish domestic growth. Chinese firms are building their brands abroad and managing product prices by moving factories to Thailand and Indonesia to avoid paying higher…

[karthlake]

Book Release Party - TBC Publications

You are invited to join us live on Monday, February 26th at 7pm Manila time (in the Philippines) and 5am Minneapolis, MN time! I have joined TBC Publications to make my books available in the Philippines. They do a great job working with Indie authors in Southeast Asia and sell direct to readers through Shopee. Join these authors live: Knight Phantom, Ally Santos, Francis Digamo, and R. Scott…

[lotusinjadewell]

Street food and scenery in Hanoi, Vietnam. Credit to nofoodphobia (Instagram).

[shiro-kasamatsu]

[not-your-asian-fantasy]

🇲🇲 The long cheroot that she holds is a typical attribute in studio portraits of Burmese women, whose habit of smoking large cigars was noted with some astonishment by European visitors, who also commented on their relative freedom, beauty and confidence.

The girl wears a striped silk hta-mein (wrap-around skirt) and a close-fitting jacket of fine muslin or cotton known as an ein-gyi. Her hair is adorned with a floral headband and she wears necklaces and earrings.

During the Konbaung Dynasty (1752-1885), rich jewellery, fine fabrics such as silk and garments such as her jacket were reserved for court officials and their wives by sumptuary laws.

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[35mmpixz]

Koh Chang, Thailand 2017

[shutternd]

Shades of Faitfh

Nakorn Ratchasima, Thailand - July 2023

My friend and I went on an adventure around Isaan, the north eastern part and the most overlooked part of Thailand.

[citysleeps]

being south east asian and being generally forgotten about by western media can actually be such a sacred thing re. forging your own narrative without the clumsy representation thrust upon the cultures deemed more palatable by their trends and their media and their beauty standards but it can also be so isolating because nobody here even knows what language we speak