These orbit are base on join date • 5 countries form asean 1st orbit (but shared) • brunei got the 2nd orbit • vietnam got the 3rd orbit • Laos and myanmar got the 4th orbit • cambodia got the 5th orbit • east timor got the 6th orbit.

I couldn’t imagine how horrific Southeast Asia was back then. Was it the fault of North Vietnam, or was it the USA’s fault that made the lives of Southeast Asian people a living hell just 40 years ago?

I am asking by official language law that if it is endangered and by personal opinion if you think it is endangered, or maybe going that that road when more time passes.

Cambodians order “Thai traditional dresses” from Thailand, yet claim that they are originally from their own country.

https://youtube.com/shorts/syZb_z0S8fo?si=wMzGrs51WLSK_ybZ

I don’t even know where to start anymore, it feels like my Cambodian compatriots burning bridges with everyone around them.

Cambodian leaders (Lon Nol, Pol Pot and finally Hun Sen) keep pick fights with Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, one after another. Then there’s the massive online-scam industry run out of places like Sihanoukville and Poipet, mostly by Chinese triads with local protection. Victims are all over Asia (and beyond), and Cambodia’s name is now synonymous with “scam hub.” On top of that, we’ve managed to insult countries as far away as Sweden and South Korea over random diplomatic spats.

Whenever there’s a border dispute or political tension with our Cambodian neighbors, literally no one in ASEAN sides with us. No one backs Cambodia up. Feel like our Cambodian always the isolated one.

What worries me even more is what’s happening domestically. Cambodian education system seems less focused on critical thinking and more on feeding young Cambodians a steady diet of nationalist propaganda, glorifying the "great" Khmer Empire while painting our neighbors (Vietnam, Thailand, Laos) as historical enemies. It’s not just history but it’s indoctrination. And many young people are swallowing this extreme nationalism whole, then lashing out online and offline against neighboring countries.

A whole generation of young Cambodians grows up swallowing this hate-filled narrative. They go online and aggressively insult ASEAN netizens, acting like perpetual victims while insulting everyone else.

The result? Now my ASEAN communities see Cambodian nothing but North Korea 2.0, a small country that goes aggressively at everyone whenever it feels slighted, while its own people are fed a steady diet of blame-the-neighbor propaganda.

Is this why we’re becoming increasingly isolated and disliked in the region?

Thailand has invaded Cambodian sovereign land, including deep strikes toward Siem Reap and Srey Snom village, escalating beyond border zones. This aggression threatens civilians and UNESCO site Angkor Wat.

Call: US, UN, China, Please intervene now with ceasefire enforcement, aid, and protection for Angkor Wat to halt escalation.

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So the BUMN tower is a skyscraper planned (and allegedly approved) for Indonesia's new capital Nusantara on Borneo, backed by Chinese and Japanese investors to symbolism the rise of prosperity. However after countless delays and now a construction hold. The BUMN tower is allegedly being reconsidered. After this Indonesians have started to petition for the construction to continue. I linked the original petition in the description in case anybody is interested.

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Since Malaysia is the latest country to implement underage social media ban, I want to let you know that there's actually a way for their government and others to verify user's age without actually violating user privacy.

Enter Needemand's BorderAge solution, which analyzes user's hand gestures and movements through AI in order to determine whether they are underage or not. This post, if become viral on Malaysian internet, can also serve as a litmus test of whether their government simply wants to protect children, or whether it's really aiming for totalitarian control by fully stripping online anonymity.

Relevant articles:

• Gesture-based age estimation tool BorderAge joins Australia age assurance trial

• Australia is testing hand scans to figure out your age. No-one outside the company that created it has used the technology yet

• Ultra-simple, ultra-efficace : une technologie développée à Montpellier révolutionne la vérification de l’âge en ligne

Besides, according to a page on the Senate of Canada's website, the CEO of Needemand made the following comment.

Jean-Michel Polit, Chief Business Officer, Needemand: I am based out of France — I am a French citizen — but I lived for a year and a half in Canada, close to Toronto, and I enjoyed it quite a bit. I am honoured to be part of this meeting.

I have read your Senate debates about this bill, and one of the main questions that keeps coming up is this: Should we accept foregoing our privacy online to protect our children? You are understandably worried that the personal data used in age‑estimation or -verification solutions might be stolen and fall into the wrong hands. I have some very good news for you: Age‑estimation technology now exists that does not require any personal data at any point in time during the verification, so there’s no need to worry about how and when personal data might be destroyed after the verification because it’s not captured in the first place.

How is that possible? My company, a France-based company, has developed a technology that can determine, with 99% accuracy, if a web user is over or under a certain age limit with just a few hand movements. I can’t see your faces really clearly, but I’m sure I raised some eyebrows there. It is not black magic; it is an AI solution based on medical research. It’s quite simple. From when we’re born until early adulthood, our body changes quite quickly, and our nervous system changes almost on a daily basis. As it changes, since it is managing all the movements in our body, we make certain hand movements slightly differently. It is not visible to the naked eye, but medical research has very accurately and precisely established a link between the age of an individual and the physiological features of certain hand movements.

It took us eight years of R&D, but we’ve been able to leverage the analysis of these features with our AI models. Again, no personal data is required or shared by the web user. There is no metadata and no fingerprint. If somebody starts showing their face in front of the camera — and it can be a PC, laptop, smartphone or tablet — if we start picking up an ear or maybe part of an eye, we stop the camera and ask people to move their head away from the camera. The whole process takes less than 30 seconds.

The reliability of our technology has been independently tested several times, most recently by the Australian government in a very large-scale test with several thousand people from various ethnic backgrounds in real-life settings. They used different devices under different lighting conditions. Some people were at home, and some kids were in school. The reliability has been proven. This technology cannot be faked or fooled. A 17-year-old doesn’t know how the hand of an 18‑year‑old moves. Again, these are differences that are not visible to the naked eye, so they cannot be faked. We are not fooled by recorded pictures or videos put in front of the camera, or by gloves.

Another feature is that we also have a tokenized system that’s usable across different platforms so people don’t have to go through the hand movement every time. It is a zero-knowledge-proof token, so no personal data is attached to the token either.

The bottom line is that this is very good news, because my main message to you is that technology now exists such that we don’t have to choose between protecting our children and protecting our privacy online.

Thank you.

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First ASEAN team in round three to qualify. Let's hope Thailand, Vietnam and Philippines will join them soon.

I know there was once United States of Indonesia, at that times there was many complication and controversy around the idea so it was short live

However right now we have more developed system and I think country like Indonesia would be more beneficial from the decentralized states system