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With 12.56 million projected visitors in 2015, Istanbul outpaced New York and Singapore, climbing two spots to become the fifth most visited city in the world, according to the annual MasterCard Global Destinations Cities Index released on June 3.

London still reigns supreme on the annual MasterCard Global Destinations Cities Top 10 Index, although Asian cities are catching up.
Bangkok remains number two with 18.24 million international overnight visitors and is catching up to the British capital.

Spanish restaurant “El Celler de Can Roca” once more won the coveted prize of the best restaurant in the world, overcoming 2014’s champion “Noma”. In recent years, the two restaurants have been exchanging places, with both winning 1st prize.

TIME magazine’s article “9 Vacation Spots That Are Better (and Cheaper) Than the Places You Want to Go” looks at less-traveled locales that have the perks of iconic destinations but have fewer tourists and are more affordable.

Myanmar's delegate to talks in Bangkok on Southeast Asia's migrant crisis on May 29 rebuked the UN's refugee agency for calling on the country to recognise the Muslim Rohingya minority as citizens to stem their exodus from its shores.

Thailand's junta confirmed May 27 that elections will not be held until September 2016, dealing a further blow to hopes that the kingdom's generals will swiftly hand power back to a civilian government.

They're ubiquitous in Asia, swarming the bustling streets of Bangkok, New Delhi and Beijing.
     
Now, a company that manufactures the tuk-tuk - the three-wheeled motorized rickshaws that have moved the masses for more than half a century - aims to make inroads in the United States.
     

Thailand's ousted prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra insisted on her innocence May 19 at the start of a trial that could see her jailed for a decade, part of what observers say is a vendetta against her family.

Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia will continue to push boats holding thousands of migrants back to sea, a senior Thai official said on May 134, despite a U.N. appeal for a rapid rescue operation to avoid a humanitarian crisis. 

?We haven?t seen the worst,? said Helen Clark, the head of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), regarding the refugee crisis across the world as we were talking right after the inauguration of a new regional hub in Istanbul on April 23.