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The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has announced that it expects the tourism industry to generate revenue of up to 2.38 trillion baht (US$65.03 billion) next year.

Local tourists have been travelling inland whenever the opportunity allows for it in Cambodia. Though it isn’t enough to prop up the economy, domestic tourism has helped resuscitate some parts of industry

Singapore Airlines (SIA) is looking to recruit about 2,000 cabin crew as air travel continues to pick up pace.

Some Indonesians have begun departing to their hometowns to spend the Aidilfitri holiday with families and friends, a tradition known as mudik (exodus) in the Muslim-majority country, while the government has started trials of traffic management policies in anticipation of congestion along the country’s toll roads.

To pedestrians and cyclists injuly, the government continued to fund ferry plans by around £80,000 per month. it was decided in late november the service would not be necessary. todays the day youre traditionally supposed to take your christmas decorations down. but what can you do with your old tree? well, over at vauxhall city farm in central london theyre helping to get rid of christmas trees by feeding them to their their animals including goats and alpacas lets get a look at the weather no...

Into ukraine? it is very interesting, you - into ukraine? it is very interesting, you know, into ukraine? it is very - interesting, you know, actually president putin has put a number of offers on the table in the recent years that nato and the united states have resisted picking up, for example, he made an offer to start constraining intermediate range missiles again in europe, and of course the russians violated the treaty, and that is why the treaty, the united states withdrew from it. but he...

Process takes years and one of the conditions is that you cant be at war. the country has been at war for eight in the east, but signing up would also put it in direct conflict with russia. the kremlin has made that clear, saying it would welcome a guarantee of not drawing though my joining, that it would ease security concerns. and they want an agreement... joining nato, in the words of the uks uk ambassador of ukraine, that is not going to happen by wednesday. find ukraine, that is not going ...

The question now is whether they will be met. claire marshall, bbc news, herefordshire. time for the weather. hello there. much of the country today had a fine one with plenty of sunshine. it felt quite warm, too, but there were some heavy, thundery showers across parts of the midlands and northern england. these will tend to fade away. many places turning drier tonight, but we start to see some rain pushing into western areas, courtesy of this new area of low pressure which is going to be with ...

Well start to see some rain, which could become more persistent and heavy at times and the breeze picking up, too. temperatures lifting across the south —12—15 degrees, one or two cooler spots further north and east. so, for the end of the week, its looking a lot more unsettled with low pressure pretty much slap bang on top of us. thats going to bring showers or longer spells of rain, and its going to turn windier, too. it moves very slowly, affecting western areas through thursday morning, ...

Watching. bye—bye. hello there. much of the country today had a fine one with plenty of sunshine. it felt quite warm, too, but there were some heavy, thundery showers across parts of the midlands and northern england. these will tend to fade away. many places turning drier tonight, but we start to see some rain pushing into western areas, courtesy of this new area of low pressure which is going to be with us for quite a few days. you can see ahead of it very light winds. it turns drier as we s...