Surrounded by neighboring countries Cambodia, China, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam, Laos is the only landlocked country in South-East Asia. But, ‘land-locked’ should instead be ‘land-linked.’ Significant infrastructure projects to connect through and across the county are transforming Lao into a land bridge offering the most direct route between neighboring countries.

400 million texts daily, or 142 billion a year, is the staggering amount of texts sent within and from the Philippines. That is more than the US and the UK combined!

Did you know that the Shinjuku railway station in Tokyo is the world’s busiest?

Did you know that the game of handball originates in Denmark?

Did you know Australia has the world’s longest stretch of straight rail tracks?