Yangon bound
Myanmar Airways International (MAI) is slated for a November 2 launch of bi-weekly flights between Phnom Penh and Myanmar’s economic hub and former capital, Yangon, Cambodian Aviation officials said yesterday.
The flights – on 162-seat A320 jets – will transfer in Siem Reap before continuing on to Phnom Penh, Tep Sun Tary, director of air transport for the State Secretariat for Civil Aviation, said.
The agreement for the flights was signed between the two countries’ tourism ministers earlier this year. The Post reported in September that Phnom Penh-Yangon flights would begin October 29.
Inadequate preparation accounted for the delay, Tep Sun Tary said. MAI launched direct flights between Yangon and Siem Reap in February. Visitors from Myanmar increased more than 72 per cent, with 2,808 tourists in the first eight months of 2011, according to statistics from the Ministry of Tourism.
Cambodian Tourism Minister Thong Khon said yesterday that the airlines’ extension to Phnom Penh would help attract more tourists to the three destinations.
“We hope that the triangular flight will to boost the tourism industry in the two countries or in other ASEAN countries,” he said.
Yangon bound: New flights to Myanmar after delay
Monday, 31 October 2011New carriers to service Kingdom
Two new Asian airlines will begin regular flights to Cambodia this winter in an airlines sector increasingly dominated by regional passengers, a Cambodia Airports official said on Friday.
Tiger Airways, a Singapore-based airline, will operate daily A320 flights between Singapore and Phnom Penh and Singapore and Siem Reap, Emmanuel Menanteau, Cambodia Airports CEO, said during a press briefing on the winter flight season, which began yesterday.
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Asia
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| Area | 44,579,000 km2 (17,212,000 sq mi)[1] |
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| Population | 3,879,000,000 (1st)[2] |
| Pop. density | 87/km2 (225/sq mi) |
| Demonym | Asian |
| Countries | 48 (List of countries) |
| Dependencies | |
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| Languages | List of languages |
| Time Zones | UTC+2 to UTC+12 |
| Internet TLD | .asia |
| Largest cities | List of cities |
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Asia Countries
There are forty-eight countries that make up the continent of Asia. The major countries are:
China
India
Pakistan
Sri Lanka
Singapore
Bhutan
Iran
Iraq
Saudi Arabia
Afghanistan
Bangladesh
Indonesia
China is the largest country by area in Asia and the fourth-largest country in the world. Asia is surrounded by a number of water bodies. It is bounded on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the south by the Indian Ocean, on the east by the Bering Strait and the Pacific Ocean, and by the Red and Mediterranean seas on the southwest. Some of the major seas that make up the continent are:
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Yellow Sea
South China Sea
Philippine Sea
Sea of Okhotsk
Red Sea
Black Sea
Caspian Sea
Aral Sea
Asia is popular not only because of popular tourist spots (most of these places are built in medieval era), but also because of Medical Tourism. It has been a popular business in the continent comprising of the top country destinations for different cosmetic plastic surgery procedures, and other health-related surgeries. India and Thailand are one of the top areas of Medical tourism because of the quality of the procedure and the low cost of each treatment.
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