A Vietnamese restaurant in Hong Kong that refuses to tone down its idiosyncratic Vietnamese flavors to suit local palates has won Michelin honors for three straight years.

Nördlingen appears to be a postcard-perfect medieval town in Germany’s Bavaria, complete with red-tiled roofs, cobbled streets and a stone wall surrounding the old center, yet it is best known among tourists for the diamonds embedded in its stones.

South Korea’s Incheon International Airport climbed three places from last year to rank seventh in this year’s World’s Best Awards survey by American magazine Travel+Leisure, earning a reader score of 85.9 out of 100.

Vietnam’s chicken noodle soup has been included in TasteAtlas’s global list, standing alongside dishes from Paraguay, China, and South Korea.

Singapore, ranked the world’s second-richest country by GDP per capita in 2025, will provide S$1,200 (US$930) in rental support to 6,900 hawkers operating cooked-food stalls to help ease rising operating costs and inflation fueled by the conflict in the Middle East.

Young people queued up for two hours before opening time in Ho Chi Minh City to buy Yunnan snow milk, a Chinese dessert currently going viral on social media in Vietnam.

An Airbus test flight for Australian carrier Qantas has made history, flying non-stop for 24 hours and 24 minutes.

A weekend-only banh mi chao served in the backyard of a U.S. coffee shop has gone viral for its resemblance to Ho Chi Minh City’s breakfast spots.

Indonesia is strengthening regional connectivity and expanding its business events ecosystem in a bid to establish itself as ASEAN’s leading hub for international meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions (MICE).

Thailand, Southeast Asia’s fourth-richest country by GDP per capita, is accelerating efforts to position its healthcare sector as a new economic growth driver, aiming to become Asia’s leading wellness and longevity tourism destination within the next three years.