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Contractors in charge of installing Myanmar’s first cable-car system say their work is almost done and it should be ready to open on schedule. The system is being built at Kyaikhtiyo Pagoda and is due to open sometime in October.

Municipal authorities in Pattaya and Jomtien say swimmers need to be careful of jellyfish drifting in the Gulf of Thailand. The warning comes after tides washed smacks of jellyfish onto Jomtien Beach over the weekend.

Increased admission fees at Cambodia’s Angkor Archaeological Park have helped generate record income. Angkor Enterprise handles ticket issuing services for the park and reported earlier this month that income for May this year was almost 100 per cent higher than for May 2016.