A trip to China is always full of experiences and during this trip we visit some of China’s absolute gold nuggets! We experience the former Portuguese colony of Macau, known for its southern European influences[…]
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Category: Asia
South Korea and Beijing
Join us on a journey that takes you to two of East Asia’s most important countries: South Korea and China. In South Korea, we will see the DMZ / JSA border area. South Korea’s bustling[…]
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Grocery Shopping in Krabi
You can get a cross-section of Krabi’s best shopping when you go to Krabi town and get acquainted with the offer of the main street and the side streets between it and Joenranta. For many,[…]
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Yemen 1998
Yearbook 1998 Yemen. According to Countryaah, the capital of Yemen is Sanaa. 1998 was a troubled year. In June, the government announced price increases of up to 40% as a result of the economic reform[…]
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Vietnam 1998
Yearbook 1998 Vietnam. According to Countryaah, the capital of Vietnam is Hanoi. Asia’s financial crisis, tropical hurricanes and severe summer drought slowed Vietnam’s exports and tourism and drove up unemployment. After an economic growth of[…]
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Uzbekistan 1998
Yearbook 1998 Uzbekistan. At an international environmental conference in Uzbekistan’s capital Tashkent in September, Uzbek ecologists expressed concern that the previously so powerful Aral Sea may have completely disappeared in 2015, which would have severe[…]
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United Arab Emirates 1998
Yearbook 1998 United Arab Emirates. What the United Arab Emirates as well as the other states south of the Persian Gulf especially want to see in the region is stability. As a result, frustration grew[…]
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Turkmenistan 1998
Yearbook 1998 Turkmenistan. In April, local elections and elections were held for the People’s Council. The latter includes the 50 members of the country’s legislative assembly and another 50 elected and 10 elected members. The[…]
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Turkey 1998
Yearbook 1998 Turkey. The year was marked by crises both domestic and foreign policy. The Islamic Welfare Party (Refah Partisi, RP) – whose government had been forced to fall by the military in 1997 and[…]
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Thailand 1998
Yearbook 1998 Thailand. According to Countryaah, the capital of Thailand is Bangkok. The Asian economic crisis, which began just in Thailand in 1997, overshadowed all other social life in 1998 as well. planned to increase[…]
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Tajikistan 1998
Yearbook 1998 Tajikistan. In February, President Imomali Rachmonov appointed five members of the opposition to ministers, and in March, the united opposition was appointed UTO’s second leader Chadzji Akhbar Turadzjonzoda as first deputy prime minister.[…]
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Taiwan 1998
Yearbook 1998 Taiwan. Relations with Taiwan’s arch-rival China improved through meetings at the highest level to date after the arrival of both regimes in 1949. Since a delegation from Taiwan’s semi-official contact agency SEF visited[…]
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Syria 1998
Yearbook 1998 Syria. In February President Hafiz al-Asad dismissed his brother Rifat al-Asad from the post of Vice President. The two brothers had been on edge before, including 1984 when Hafiz al-Asad forced his brother[…]
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Sri Lanka 1998
Yearbook 1998 Sri Lanka. Just over a week before Sri Lanka would celebrate its 50th anniversary as an independent state, the guerrilla Tamil Liberation Tigers, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), conducted its most symbolic[…]
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South Korea 1998
Yearbook 1998 South Korea. According to Countryaah, the capital of South Korea is Seoul. The newly elected President Kim Dae Jung, formerly South Korea’s leading dissident, met with protests when in February, in accordance with[…]
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Singapore 1998
Yearbook 1998 Singapore. Although Singapore was less affected by the Asian crisis than many other countries, the region’s stagnation caused business losses and shrinking tourism. The number of tourists was estimated at 6 million against[…]
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Saudi Arabia 1998
Yearbook 1998 Saudi Arabia. The low oil price continued to pose problems for the country’s economy. Saudi Arabia and a number of other oil-producing countries, both within and outside the oil-producing countries’ organization OPEC, tried[…]
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Russia 1998
Yearbook 1998 Russian Federation. During the year, the Russian Federation suffered the worst economic crisis since the collapse of communism. According to Countryaah, the capital of Russia is Moscow. The economic collapse began on August[…]
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Qatar 1998
Yearbook 1998 Qatar. In February, a lawsuit was initiated against more than 100 people suspected of involvement in a coup attempt in 1996. Two people were sentenced to ten years in prison for revealing state[…]
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Philippines 1998
Yearbook 1998 Philippines. According to Countryaah, the capital of Philippines is Manila. Nine years after the death of President Ferdinand Marcos, the over $ 500 million that he spent over 20 years in Swiss bank[…]
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Pakistan 1998
Yearbook 1998 Pakistan. Following India’s nuclear weapons explosions in mid-May, Pakistan conducted six own nuclear tests at the end of the month. Test blasts were met by euphoria in the country over the “Islamic bomb”,[…]
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Oman 1998
Yearbook 1998 Oman. According to Countryaah, the capital of Oman is Muscat. Oman’s new two-chamber parliament began working in January. A great deal of energy went into finding collaborative forms for the two chambers, Majlis[…]
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North Korea 1998
Yearbook 1998 North Korea. The Geneva talks between North Korea, South Korea, the United States and China on a Korean peace treaty, initiated in December 1997, continued in March and October but without progress. One[…]
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Nepal 1998
Yearbook 1998 Nepal. The unstable political situation, which gave Nepal three governments in 1997, persisted. Prime Minister Surya Bahadur Thapa in January asked King Birendra Bar Bikram Shah Deb to dissolve Parliament and announce new[…]
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Myanmar 1998
Yearbook 1998 Burma. According to Countryaah, the capital of Burma is Naypyidaw. Burma’s largest political party The National Democratic Alliance (National League for Democracy, NLD) was allowed by the military junta to hold congress with[…]
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Mongolia 1998
Yearbook 1998 Mongolia. In April, Prime Minister Mendsaikhany Enkhsaikhan resigned following a settlement within the bourgeois government coalition and was replaced by Tsahiagijyn Elbegdordj. One of his first steps was to merge a bankrupt state[…]
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Maldives 1998
Yearbook 1998 Maldives. According to Countryaah, the capital of Maldives is Male. President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, who has ruled the Maldives since 1978, was re-elected in October for a new five-year term. According to a[…]
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Malaysia 1998
Yearbook 1998 Malaysia. According to Countryaah, the capital of Malaysia is Kuala Lumpur. Prime Minister Mahathir bin Mohamad, Malaysia’s strong man for 17 years, ended up in political blows during the summer when Finance Minister[…]
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Lebanon 1998
Yearbook 1998 Lebanon. Following the sign of Syria, in October, Lebanon’s parliament elected Commander-in-Chief Emile Lahoud as new president. He succeeded Elias Hrawi, who has held the post since the end of the war in[…]
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Laos 1998
Yearbook 1998 Laos. At a closed session in February, the National Assembly in the capital Vientiane appointed Prime Minister Khamtay Siphandone as new president after Nouhak Phoumsavane. New head of government became former Vice President[…]
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Kyrgyzstan 1998
Yearbook 1998 Kyrgyzstan. From the New Year, the death penalty in Kyrgyzstan was abolished. In March, Kubanjchbek Djumaljev was appointed new prime minister and in April the government was heavily reformed. According to Countryaah, the[…]
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Kuwait 1998
Yearbook 1998 Kuwait. During the year, the power struggle between the government and certain members of the country’s parliament, especially Islamists, was made clearer. Since the government is completely dominated by the governing family and[…]
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Kosovo 1998
Yearbook 1998 Kosovo. During the summer, the tense situation in Kosovo exploded and violent fighting was fought between Serbian security forces and Kosovo’s liberation army, UCK (Ushtria Clirimtare e Kosovës). Following tough international pressure, Kosovo’s[…]
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Kazakhstan 1998
Yearbook 1998 Kazakhstan. Winter became difficult in Kazakhstan with food shortages and with no wages for miners and other government employees. Strikes, hunger strikes and demonstrations succeeded. According to Countryaah, the capital of Kazakhstan is[…]
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Jordan 1998
Yearbook 1998 Jordan. King Hussein, one of the heads of state in the world who has spent the longest time in his post, was cared for a large part of the year for lymph node[…]
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Japan 1998
Yearbook 1998 Japan. According to Countryaah, the capital of Japan is Tokyo. Japan’s financial crisis of 1997 harmed even more victims among politicians and officials during the year. In January, Finance Minister Hiroshi Mitsuzuka resigned[…]
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Israel 1998
Yearbook 1998 Israel. According to Countryaah, the capital of Israel is Jerusalem. Israel was characterized during the year by a political crisis that culminated just before the turn of the year when the government’s position[…]
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Iraq 1998
Yearbook 1998 Iraq. According to Countryaah, the capital of Iraq is Baghdad. During the year, Iraq continued to prevent UN weapons inspectors UNSCOM (United Nations Special Commission) from carrying out their missions, ie. inspect facilities[…]
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Iran 1998
Yearbook 1998 Iran. The year was marked by a dramatic power struggle between the country’s conservative and liberal camps. In April, one of Liberal President Mohammad Khatami’s closest ally was arrested, Tehran’s popular mayor Gholamhossain[…]
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Indonesia 1998
Yearbook 1998 Indonesia. The economic crisis that began in 1997 continued during the year. After an unrealistic state budget for 1998/99, the value of the currency, rupiah, plummeted. Panic-stricken hoarding was followed in February by[…]
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India 1998
Yearbook 1998 India. In February/March, a new election was held for Parliament. The Hindu Nationalist Indian People’s Party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), was able to form government together with a dozen smaller parties, but[…]
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Georgia 1998
Yearbook 1998 Georgia. According to Countryaah, the capital of Georgia is Tbilisi. President Eduard Shevardnadze was subjected to an attack in February in the capital Tbilisi. He escaped unharmed, but two bodyguards were killed when[…]
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East Timor 1998
Long before the Portuguese Vasco de Gama, both the Chinese and the Arabs knew Timor as an “inexhaustible source of precious woods, porcelain, lead and other” natural resources that indigenous people could benefit from. The[…]
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Cyprus 1998
Yearbook 1998 Cyprus. The incumbent President Glafkos Klerides, who belongs to the right-wing Rally Party or DISY (Dimokratikos Synagermos, Democratic Assembly), won a tight victory in the February presidential election. He lost to Communist-backed challenger[…]
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China 1998
Yearbook 1998 China. The summer floods in southern, eastern and central China became the worst since 1954. The torrential downpour caused the Chang Jiang River to flood. the city of Wuhan. According to Countryaah, the[…]
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Cambodia 1998
Yearbook 1998 Cambodia. During the year, Cambodia took several steps towards peace and reconciliation. In February, the fighting in the northwest between Second Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government forces and troops ceased to defy the[…]
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Brunei 1998
Yearbook 1998 Brunei. According to Countryaah, the capital of Brunei is Bandar Seri Begawan. The international financial crisis with roots in Asia also hit the normally prosperous oil kingdom of Brunei. Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah’s younger[…]
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Bhutan 1998
The small kingdom of Bhutan on the southern slope of the Himalayas between the dry highlands of Tibet and the lush lowlands cut by Indian rivers protects its own culture by limiting the number of[…]
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Bangladesh 1998
Yearbook 1998 Bangladesh. After nearly 23 years of fighting, the Shanti Bahini guerrilla laid down its weapons in February after the government granted amnesty to all who participated in the uprising in the Chittagong Hill[…]
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Bahrain 1998
Yearbook 1998 Bahrain. In March, Bahrain was visited by Iran’s former president Ali Akbar Rafsanjani. He met the Emir, Isa ibn Salman al-Khalifa, and they both discussed opportunities for improved cooperation. According to Countryaah, the[…]
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