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 ).

However, no other fossil or extant species of this putative lineage have been found to date in Southeast Asia, Australasia or the western Pacific outside of Fiji and Tonga.

The Asian group split into two clades: an Indian lineage which has probably become extinct and a Southeast Asian lineage.

Among the Theravāda nations of Southeast Asia and Sri Lanka, nikāya is also used as the term for a monastic division or lineage ; these groupings are also sometimes called " monastic fraternities " or " frateries ".

The only acception of the completely East / Southeast Asian lineage in Cape coloured are haplogroup O3-M122 ( 3. 58 %) and K-M9 ( 1. 32 %) both which are found among Chinese and Southeast Asians but not among the Malagasy.

Institute of Southeast Asian Studies: Singapore, 2007 ; Cuong Tu Nguyen 1997, pg 342-3 < sup ></ sup ></ ref > The Thiền Uyển Tập Anh ( Outstanding Figures in the Vietnamese Zen Community ) has been the dominant text used to legitimize the Zen Buddhist lineage and history within Vietnam.

Kabaddi is popular throughout South Asia, and has also spread to Southeast Asia, Japan and Iran.

After becoming popular in Japan, karaoke spread to East and Southeast Asia during the 1980s and subsequently to other parts of the world.

The Chola navy played a vital role in the expansion of the Chola Tamil kingdom, including the conquest of the Sri Lanka islands, Kadaaram ( Present day Burma ), Sri Vijaya ( present day Southeast Asia ), the spread of Hinduism, Tamil architecture and Tamil culture to Southeast Asia and in curbing the piracy in Southeast Asia in 900 CE.

The original type of sushi, known today as nare-zushi () was first developed in Southeast Asia possibly along what is now known as the Mekong River and then spread to southern China before introduction to Japan.

A lack of data from Thailand, Russia, the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa makes it difficult to lay out a clear map of the spread of chickens in these areas ; better description and genetic analysis of local breeds threatened by extinction may also help with research into this area.

Contemporary research by anthropologists, linguists ( Blust, Reid, Ross, Pawley ), and archaeologists ( Bellwood ) suggests that the inhabitants of the Maritime Southeast Asia migrated from southern China to islands of the Philippines around 2500 BCE and later spread to modern day Malaysia and Indonesia.

According to the Nagarakertagama, around the 13th century, Majapahit's vassal states spread throughout much of today's Indonesia, making it the largest empire ever to exist in Southeast Asia.

It was the lure of trade that brought Europeans to Southeast Asia while missionaries also tagged along the ships as they hoped to spread Christianity into the region.

* Buddhism begins to spread to Southeast Asia.

Their ancient eastern Indonesian cousins spread the plant west and north through insular and coastal Southeast Asia.

The black rat originated in India and Southeast Asia, and spread to the Near East and Egypt, and then throughout the Roman Empire, reaching England as early as the 1st century.

The first inhabitants of Tuvalu were Polynesians so that the origins of the people of Tuvalu is addressed in the theories regarding the spread of humans out of Southeast Asia, from Taiwan, via Melanesia and across the Pacific islands to create Polynesia.

Evidence suggests that around 3, 000 years ago successive waves of human migrants from Southeast Asia spread across the Western Pacific populating its many small islands.

Colocasia is thought to have originated in the Indo-Malayan region, perhaps in eastern India and Bangladesh, and spread eastward into Southeast Asia, eastern Asia, and the Pacific islands ; westward to Egypt and the eastern Mediterranean ; and then southward and westward from there into East Africa and West Africa, whence it spread to the Caribbean and Americas.

Soy sauce originated in China sometime in the 2nd century BCE and its use later spread to East and Southeast Asia.

From there it spread throughout Southeast Asia and eventually Africa.

It is also extensively grown in South China and in Southeast Asia, whether originally spread along the route of the Silk Road or brought by sea traders.

In Southeast Asia government and nongovernmental organisations are working together with academics and industry operators to spread the economic benefits of tourism into the kampungs and villages of the region.

The primary evidence for the domino theory is the spread of communist rule in three Southeast Asian countries in 1975, following the communist takeover of Vietnam: South Vietnam ( by the Viet Cong ), Laos ( by the Pathet Lao ), and Cambodia ( by the Khmer Rouge ).

As word spread in the American Southeast about the fort, whites called it the " Negro Fort.

In the 1780, they had crossed the Mississippi River from the East and spread throughout Southeast Missouri.