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.

Asia has been hit by over 20 earthquakes above a 2.5 magnitude in the last 24 hours, with four powerful ones in central and southeast Asia, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS).

East Asia’s Islands Challenge April 18, 2013 Last week, the Center for Naval Analysis published the fifth in a series of reports on the current status of the East Asian littoral.