Cover#150 Malaysia, FDC I got,

Here is the mail I got recently. An abundant beautiful FDC inside made my day. I think Malaysia post is always creative as they use different material for their item such as this Pearl MS. I really love it.

Thank you so much Matthew!

PC#110 Cover#131 Indonesia, Asean joint issue 2015,

Sent:

Arrived: 29/9/2015

Thank you Shinta1 I love the smile from the farmer in Bali. She looks so happy in the harvest.

PC#103 Malaysia, Asean countries' flags,

Sent: 20/8/2015

Arrived: 4/9/2015

Thank you Matthew!

PC#101 Philippines, Sunset on the beach at Boracay Island,

I adore the sunset, especially the sunset on beach. When I see the sunset, I feel the peace in my soul.

Sent: 20/8/2015

Arrived: 3/9/2015

Thank you so much Shaula for trying to make my day by checking my profil first. Yes you are.

Cover#118 Malaysia, Asean Joint Issue Stamp 2015,

Malaysia is off from my list today.

Sent: 8/8/2015

Arrived: 1/9/2015

Thank you, Kow, for your help!

Cover#115 Thailand, Asean Joint Issue stamp 2015,

Thailand is off from my missing Asean joint issue today.  This FDC was sent mint inside a beautiful cover. I love the traditional musical instruments stampset with the special tampon of Thaipex 2015.

Sent:

Arrived: 25/8/2015

Thank you Dozchan!

Cover#114 Indonesia, Asean Joint Issue 2015,

Another country was added to my Asean Joint Issue 2015 collection today. Indonesia is off now. So excited to get this one with block of 4 mint stamps inside.

Sent: 8/8/2015

Arrived: 25/8/2015

Thank you Juned!

Cover#113 Malaysia, Asean joint issue FDC,

Sent: 8/8/2015

Arrived:25/8/2015

Thank you Liew!

Cover#121 Singapore, Joint issue FDC,

Another Joint issue FDC arrived today with a block of 4 mint stamps inside. Much appreciated.

The normal postmark with the name Newton makes me remember to my physical classes in highschool. I love physic. 

Sent: 8/8/2015

Arrivd: 21/8/2015

Thank you for the help, Wong!

Cover#120 Singapore, ASEAN joint issue stamp;

 This stamp was designed by a vietnamese artist for this joint issue event. It seems that the color of Singapore stamp is more coloful and more real than that one of Vietnam.

Sent: 8/8/2015

Arrived: 21/8/2015

Thank you, Vanessa!

PC#94 Singapore, Torch Ginger card,

Today, I got this one : Torch Ginger flower with new stamp of Singapore: Asean joint issue stamp chopped the first day postmark and a machine postmark marked the date of World Stamp Exhi occurring in Singapore between 15 -19 Aug 2015.

On the back of the card, there are some words of Claude Monet : I must have flowers, always, an always! Monet is one of my favorite artist in the field of Impressionisme.

Sent: 8/8/2015

Arrived: 20/8/2015

Thank you so much Taiyang!

PC#92 Thailand, UNESCO site: Ban Chiang Archaeological Site,

This card shows an antique object from Ban Chiang Archaeological Site, one of 5 UNESCO sites in Thailand.

Stamp used is Asean joint issue stamp.

Sent: 8/8/2015

Arrived: 18/8/2015

Thank you so much dozchan!

Ban Chiang Archaeological Site

UNESCO site
Date of inscription: 1992

Ban Chiang is considered the most important prehistoric settlement so far discovered in South-East Asia. It marks an important stage in human cultural, social and technological evolution. The site presents the earliest evidence of farming in the region and of the manufacture and use of metals.

The Ban Chiang Archaeological Site is a prehistoric human habitation and burial site. It is considered by scholars to be the most important prehistoric settlement so far discovered in Southeast Asia, marking the beginning and showing the development of the wet-rice culture typical of the region. The site has been dated by scientific chronometric means (C-14 and thermo luminescence) which have established that the site was continuously occupied from 1495BC until c. 900BC., making it the earliest scientifically-dated prehistoric farming and habitation site in Southeast Asia known at the time of inscription onto the World Heritage List.

The Ban Chiang cultural complex is well-defined and distinctive from anything that preceded it. Through it can trace the spread and development of prehistoric society and its development into the settled agricultural civilizations which came to characterize the region throughout history which still continue up to the present day. Advances in the fields of agriculture, animal domestication, ceramic and metal technology are all evident in the archaeological record of the site. Also evident is an increasing economic prosperity and social complexity of the successive communities at Ban Chiang, made possible by torgheir developing cultural practices, as revealed through the many burials, rich in ceramic and metal grave goods, uncovered at the site.

The Ban Chiang Archaeological Site is also the richest in Southeast Asia in the number and variety of artifacts recovered from the site. As such, the property has been extensively studied by scholars as the archaeological “type-site” for the beginnings of settled agricultural communities and their associated technologies in the region.

Source: UNESCO 

Cover#119 Myanmar, Asean joint issue FDC,

Huray, today, Myanmar is off from my missing countries list. My first mail from this peaceful area arrived.

Sent: 8/8/2015

Arrived: 18/8/2015

Thank you for helping, Wonglingchih!

Cover#115 PC#86 Vietnam, Joint issue : ASEAN countries,

Today, Vietnam post release new stamp: Joint issue of ASEAN countries.

There was a competition between different countries to choose the design of this stamp and finaly, the winer is from Vietnam, Mrs. Vũ Kim Liên. Congrats.

Sent: 7/8/2015

Arrived: 13/8/2015

Specimen stamps:

Uncut stamp:

ASEAN

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is a political and economic organisation of ten Southeast Asian countries. It was formed on 8 August 1967 by Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand. Since then, membership has expanded to include Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar (Burma), and Vietnam. Its aims include accelerating economic growth, social progress, and sociocultural evolution among its members, protection of regional peace and stability, and opportunities for member countries to resolve differences peacefully.

ASEAN covers a land area of 4.4 million square kilometres, 3% of the total land area of the Earth. ASEAN territorial waters cover an area about three times larger than its land counterpart. The member countries have a combined population of approximately 625 million people, 8.8% of the world's population. In 2015, the organisation's combined nominal GDP had grown to more than US$2.6 trillion. If ASEAN were a single entity, it would rank as the seventh largest economy in the world, behind the US, China, Japan, Germany, France and the United Kingdom.

On 28 July 1995, Vietnam became ASEAN's seventh member.