In Laos, the administration looked at the Eisenhower administration efforts to show determination by sailing a naval fleet into Southeast Asian waters as a useless gesture.

But why was Laos the new Southeast Asian battleground??

Aramaic spread across Asia, reaching as far as India and becoming Brahmi, the ancestral abugida to most modern Indian and Southeast Asian scripts.

* Latest day on which New Year festivals in South and Southeast Asian cultures can fall.

* 1999 – Cambodia joins the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) bringing the number of members to 10.

* 1967 – The Association of Southeast Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) is founded by Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.

* New Year festivals in South and Southeast Asian cultures, celebrated on the sidereal vernal equinox:

Brunei recognised Bangladesh quickly with other Southeast Asian countries and Bangladesh established residential Diplomatic mission in 1985, although it was closed down from 1988 to 1997 due to financial constraints.

The MOU further strengthened bilateral cooperation between the two Southeast Asian countries, particularly in the fields of agriculture and farm-related trade and investments.

* Conical Asian hat, a simple style of straw hat originating in East and Southeast Asia

Southeast Asian English comprises Singapore English and Malaysian English ; it features some influence from Malay, Chinese languages and dialects, and Indian English.

The genetic evidence was interpreted as showing the Southeast Asian Nicobar Pigeon to be their closest living relative, followed by the Crowned Pigeons of New Guinea and the superficially Dodo-like Tooth-billed Pigeon from Samoa.

The largest Asian diaspora outside of Southeast Asia is the Indian diaspora.

The trend is similarly evident in industries such as soft drink and bottled water manufacturing, as well as global cocoa, chocolate, and sugar confectionery manufacturing, forecast to grow by 5. 7 % and 10. 0 % respectively during 2008 in response to soaring demand in Chinese and Southeast Asian markets.

There are also a large graffiti influences in Southeast Asian countries that mostly come from modern Western culture, such as Malaysia, where graffiti has long been a common sight in Malaysia's capital city, Kuala Lumpur.

The territory is in addition the East and Southeast Asian headquarters for most of the major international communications and media services.

A study of Asian genetics points to the idea that the original humans in Asia came from in Southeast Asia.

India has also forged close ties with the member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the African Union, the Arab League and Iran.

A cornerstone of Indonesia's contemporary foreign policy is its participation in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ( ASEAN ), of which it was a founding member in 1967 with Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines.

This category includes the Council of Europe ( CoE ), European Union ( EU ), NATO, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, African Union ( AU ), Organization of American States ( OAS ), Association of Southeast Asian Nations ( ASEAN ), Arab League, and Union of South American Nations.

Southeast Asian kingdoms included tusks of the Indian elephant in their annual tribute caravans to China.

In Southeast Asian countries where Muslim Malay peoples live, such as Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines, ivory was the material of choice for making the handles of kris daggers.

The developing countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) regarded Japan as critical to their development.

Toshiki Kaifu's much publicized spring 1991 tour of five Southeast Asian nations — Malaysia, Brunei, Thailand, Singapore, and the Philippines — culminated in a 3 May major foreign policy address in Singapore, in which he called for a new partnership with the ASEAN and pledged that Japan would go beyond the purely economic sphere to seek an " appropriate role in the political sphere as a nation of peace.

* 1984 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ( ASEAN ).

Australia is at the southern end of the East Asian-Australasian flyway for migratory water birds, which extends from Far-East Russia and Alaska through Southeast Asia to Australia and New Zealand.

Most birds winter within the southern parts of the breeding range, but smaller numbers cross the Mediterranean into Africa or travel over the mountains of Malaysia into Southeast Asia.

& Fjeldså, Jon ( 2006 ): Determining biogeographical patterns of dispersal and diversification in oscine passerine birds in Australia, Southeast Asia and Africa.

Fantails are small insectivorous birds of the Australasia, Southeast Asia and Indian Subcontinent belonging to the genus Rhipidura in the family Rhipiduridae.

Southeast Asian birds have rufous crown and face, and green underparts, whereas Arabian beludschicus has a green crown, blue face and bluish underparts.

Southeast Asian birds sometimes included in javanica.

These are birds of tropical areas, with the greatest variety in Southeast Asia and the Indian Subcontinent.

The parrotbills are a group of peculiar birds native to East and Southeast Asia, though feral populations are known from elsewhere.

It is a migratory species, with majority of birds wintering in Africa, and India with fewer migrating to Southeast Asia and Australia.

He discovered many Southeast Asian birds and several, such as Swinhoe's Pheasant, are named after him.

The combined South and Southeast Asian population is placed at less than 1000 birds.

The nominate kienerii of India and Sri Lanka ( the northern birds are larger ); and formosus described by Erwin Stresemann in 1924 which is widely distributed across Southeast Asia from Burma to Sulawesi.

Schlegel was particularly interested in Southeast Asia, and in 1857 sent his son Gustav to collect in birds in China.

Distributed in most of the Indian Subcontinent and parts of Southeast Asia, they are common birds in urban gardens as well as forests.

Southeast, accessed by the San Joaquin River, Frank ’ s Tract, a protected wetland marsh, is home to beaver, muskrat, river otter, mink and 76 species of birds.

The Caprimulgiformes is an order of birds that includes the nightjars, the frogmouths of Australasia and Southeast Asia, the South American potoos and Oilbird, and the Australasian owlet-nightjars ( which according to more recent research rather belong to the Apodiformes ).

* ( 2002 ): A guide to the birds of Southeast Asia: Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia.

* Southeast Asian Birds Aviary: Visitors can view the largest collection of Southeast Asian birds, which has over 200 species.

Harpactes is a genus of birds in the Trogonidae family found in forests in South and Southeast Asia, extending into southernmost China.

* Endemic birds of Southeast Asia

The voice of this species is rich and melodious which made them popular as cage birds in South Asia with the tradition continuing in parts of Southeast Asia.