BRUNEI

Brunei, the Abode of Peace Negara Brunei Darussalam The State of Brunei Darusallam Official Languange : Malay Religion: Islam Head of State: Sultan

- mula sap pangalang Baru Nah nangangahulugang Thats it -muling pinangalanan na Barunai, ibig sabihin ay karagatan

THE SULTAN OF BRUNEI

Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin Mosque

SULTAN ALI SAIFUDDIN MOSQUE

Republic of the Union of Myanmar (Burma)

-ang pangalan ng bansa ay nagmula sa mga sinaunang grupo taong nakatira rito, ang mga BAMA at MYAMAH -relihiyon: Budhismo

PAGODAS AT TEMPLO

Mrauk U

A girl from the Padauang minority

RAMA (YAMA) AND SITA (ME THIDA

BUDDHIST MONK

CAMBODIA

The Kingdom of Cambodia Constitutional Monarchy Religion: Thevada Buddhism

Etymologically, its components are: -Preah- ("sacred") ; -Reachea(from Sanskrit raja, meaning "king, royal, realm") ; -ana- (from P li , "authority, command, power", itself from Sanskrit j , same meaning) -chak (from Sanskrit chakra meaning "wheel", a symbol of power and rule).

ANGKOR WAT

PRASAT BAYON

STUPA WHICH HOUSES THE SKULLS OF THOSE KILLED BY THE KHMER ROUGE AT CHOEUNG EK

INDEPENDENCE MONUMENT

OCIC TOWER, THE FIRST SKYSCRAPER IN CAMBODIA

ANGKOR WAT

PHNOM PENH

SIEM REAP

Battambang

Buddhist Trinity

BUDDHISM TRINITY

STUPA OF KING ANG DUONG (17961860)

ROYAL BALLET OF CAMBODIA

AMOK

CARVED PANEL

INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

LAOS

*Lao People's Democratic Republic Pamahalaan: Unitary Communist Wika: Lao In the Lao language, the country's name is "Muang Lao" ( ) or "Pathet Lao" ( ), both of which literally mean "Lao Country". The French, who united the three separate Lao kingdoms in French Indochina in 1893, named the country as the plural of the ethnic group (in French, the final "s" at the end of a word is usually silent, thus it would be also be pronounced "Lao").

PHA THAT LUANG IN VIENTIANE

MEKONG RIVER

KAYSONE MUSEUM

HMONG GIRLS ON THE PLAIN OF JARS

WATTAY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT IN VIENTIANE

BUDDHIST MONKS IN FRONT OF WAT SEN, LUANG PRABANG

BUDDHIST SHRINE IN VIENTIANE

LAO CUISINE

LAO DANCERS

THAILAND
THE KINGDOM OF THAILAND

The word Thai ( ) is commonly believed, derived from the word Tai ( ) meaning "freedom" in the Thai language; it is, however, the name of an ethnic group from the central plains (the Thai people). A famous Thai scholar argued that Tai ( ) simply means "people" or "human being" since his investigation shows that in some rural areas the word "Tai" was used instead of the usual Thai word "khon" () for people.

THE RUINS OF WAT CHAIWATTHANARAM AT AYUTTHAYA

PHANOM RUNG, A TEMPLE IN THAILAND FROM THE FORMER KHMER EMPIRE

AN EXAMPLE OF POTTERY DISCOVERED NEAR BAN CHIANG IN UDON THANI PROVINCE, THE EARLIEST DATING TO 2100 BCE.

THE AYUTTHAYA PERIOD IMMENSE 19 METER HIGH SEATED BRONZE BUDDHA IN WAT PHANAN CHOENG FROM 1324 PRE-DATES THE FOUNDING OF THE CITY IN 1351

BANGKOK'S DEMOCRACY MONUMENT: A REPRESENTATION OF THE 1932 CONSTITUTION SITS

ON TOP OF TWO GOLDEN OFFERING BOWLS ABOVE A TURRET.

ANANDA SAMAKHOM THRONE HALL THE OLD MEETING PLACE OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, NOW ONLY THE STATE OPENING IS HELD THERE.

PARLIAMENT HOUSE THE MEETING PLACE OF THE TWO CHAMBERS OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF THAILAND

VIEW OF THE LUANG PRABANG RANGE STRADDLING THE THAI/LAO BORDER IN NORTHERN THAILAND.

CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY, ESTABLISHED IN 1917 IS THE OLDEST UNIVERSITY IN THAILAND

EASTERN WATER PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED HEADQUARTERS IN BANGKOK

BANGKOK

SANCTUARY OF TRUTH

THEVADA BUDDHISM

MUAY THAI

East Timor
Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste

Government Unitary parliamentary democracy and Democratic republic President Jos Ramos-Horta Prime Minister Xanana Gusmo
WIKA: INDONESIAN AT ENGLISH

"Timor" derives from timur, the word for "east" in Indonesian and Malay, which became Timor in Portuguese and entered English as Portuguese Timor. Lorosa'e (lit "rising sun") is the word for "east" in Tetum.

DEMONSTRATION FOR INDEPENDENCE FROM INDONESIA

JOS RAMOS-HORTA

GOVERNMENT PALACE IN DILI

TASITOLU IN DILI

TIMORESE IN TRADITIONAL DRESS

BALIDE CHURCH, DILI

INDONESIA

The name Indonesia derives from the Latin and Greek Indus, and the Greek nsos, meaning "island".[8] The name dates to the 18th century, far predating the formation of independent Indonesia.[9] In 1850, George Windsor Earl, an English ethnologist, proposed the terms Indunesians and, his preference, Malayunesians for the inhabitants of the "Indian Archipelago or Malayan Archipelago".[10] In the same publication, a student of Earl's, James Richardson Logan, used Indonesia as a synonym for Indian Archipelago.[11] However, Dutch academics writing in East Indies publications were reluctant to use Indonesia. Instead, they used the terms Malay Archipelago (Maleische Archipel); the Netherlands East Indies (Nederlandsch Oost Indi), popularly Indi; the East (de Oost); and Insulinde.[12]

A BOROBUDUR SHIP CARVED ON BOROBUDUR, C. 800 CE

"MOUNT SEMERU"MOUNT SEMERU AND MOUNT BROMO IN EA ST JAVA

CRITICALLY ENDANGERED ORANGUTAN

SUMATRAN

WATER BUFFALO IN JAVA

JAKARTA

ISTIQLAL MOSQUE IN CENTRAL JAKARTA

WAYANG KULIT

INDONESIAN FOOD

MALAYSIA

Government Federal constitutional elective monarchy and Federal parliamentary democracy King Abdul Halim Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak

The word Melayu is thought to derive from the Sanskrit term Malaiur or Malayadvipa, which can be translated as "land of mountains", the word used by ancient Indian traders when referring to the Malay Peninsula.Other theories propose it originates from the Tamil word Malai, meaning "mountain".[16] The term was later used as the name of the Melayu Kingdom, which existed between the 7th and 13th centuries on Sumatra.

A FAMOSA FORTRESS IN MALACCA WAS BUILT BY THE PORTUGUESE IN THE 16TH CENTURY

MERDEKA SQUARE IN KUALA LUMPUR

MALAYSIAN HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT

A VIEW FROM LOW'S PEAK, THE HIGHEST PEAK OF MOUNT KINABALU

TAMAN NEGARA NATIONAL PARK

PROBOSCIS MONKEY IN BORNEO

RAFFLESIA

OIL PALM

PETRONAS TOWER

KAMPUNG LAUT MOSQUE IN KOTA BHARU IS ONE OF THE OLDEST MOSQUES IN MALAYSIA, DATING TO EARLY 18TH CENTURY.

A COOK MAKING MURTABAK, A TYPE OF PANCAKE MIXED WITH EGGS, SMALL PIECES OF MEAT AND ONIONS, IN KUALA LUMPUR.

CHAR KUEY TEOW MADE BY FRYING FLAT NOODLES WITH FISH CAKES, COCKLES AND BEAN SPROUTS IS A POPULAR DISH IN MALAYSIA

MALAYSIAN BATIK

SOUTH-EAST ASIA'S LARGEST TEMPLE- KEK LOK SI IN PENANG

SINGAPORE

WIKA: ENGLISH, MALAY, CHINESE,

TAMIL

GOVERNMENT UNITARY PARLIAMENTARY REPUBLIC PRESIDENT TONY TAN KENG YAM PRIME MINISTER LEE HSIEN LOONG

THE ENGLISH NAME OF SINGAPORE IS DERIVED FROM THE MALAY SINGAPURA (SANSKRIT LION CITY), HENCE THE
CUSTOMARY REFERENCE TO THE NATION AS THE LION CITY. LIONS PROBABLY NEVER LIVED THERE; THE BEAST SEEN BY

SANG NILA

UTAMA, FOUNDER OF ANCIENT SINGAPORE, WHO GAVE THE CITY ITS NAME, WAS MOST LIKELY A
TIGER

SINGAPORE'S PARLIAMENT HOUSE

THE PORT OF SINGAPORE, ONE OF THE WORLD'S FIVE BUSIEST,WITH THE SKYLINE OF SINGAPORE
IN THE BACKGROUND

SINGAPORE SKYLINE

THE ADMINISTRATIVE BUILDING OF NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY, ONE OF FIVE PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES IN SINGAPORE

NATIONAL STADIUM IN SINGAPORE

Port of Singapore with Sentosa island

.

VIETNAM

Government MarxistLeninist single-party state Language: Vietnamese Socialist Republic of Vietnam

The name Vi t Nam (Vietnamese pronunciation: [vj tnam]) is a variation of "Nam Vi t" ( ; pinyin: Nnyu; literally Southern Vi t), a name that can be traced back to the Trieu dynasty of the 2nd century BC.[18] The word Vi t originated as a shortened form of Bch Vi t ( ; pinyin: B iyu), a word applied to a group of peoples then living in southern China and Vietnam .

A DONG SON BRONZE DRUM

THE IMPERIAL CITY IN HU

The Presidential Palace in Hanoi, formerly the Palace of The Governor. General of French Indochina
.

Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in Hanoi .

A panorama of Vietnam's Ha Long Bay, . a UNESCO World Heritage Site

Terraced fields in Sa Pa .

Countryside around Ci Mon in the Mekong .Delta

THE SAOLA, ONE OF THE WORLD'S RAREST MAMMALS, IS NATIVE TO VIETNAM

BITEXCO FINANCIAL TOWER IN HO CHI MINH CITY

SAIGON RIVER CARGO PORT IN HO CHI MINH CITY

TOPIO, A VIETNAMESE HUMANOID ROBOT THAT CAN PLAY PING-PONG, ON DISPLAY IN JAPAN IN 2009

CHAM PEOPLE DANCING AT A TEMPLE IN NHA TRANG, SOUTHERN VIETNAM

H CH MINH CITY

HAI PHONG

ONE PILLAR PAGODA IN HANOI

THE MAIN CAO DAI TEMPLE IN THE CITY OF TAY NINH

THE UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE IN HANOI

TAM DUC HOSPITAL IN HO CHI MINH CITY

MUNICIPAL THEATER IN HO CHI MINH

A VIETNAMESE WOMAN WEARING A

TRADITIONAL O DI

A T T NIN OFFERING BEING MADE DURING THE T T FESTIVAL

NHA TRANG S COASTLINE

HOI AN, A UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE