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AFP, Published on 22/11/2015
» KUALA LUMPUR - Asia-Pacific leaders opened a final summit Sunday with attention expected to swing back to the maritime standoff in the South China Sea, closing a marathon week of diplomacy largely overshadowed by the recent jihadist attacks.
AFP, Published on 22/11/2015
» KUALA LUMPUR - Asia-Pacific leaders on Sunday wrap up a week of diplomacy on trade and security issues that has been jolted by revulsion over the recent jihadist attacks.
AFP, Published on 21/11/2015
» KUALA LUMPUR - Terrorism and territorial tensions are expected to dominate discussions when Asia-Pacific leaders reconvene for a fresh round of summitry in Malaysia on Saturday.
AFP, Published on 27/04/2015
» KUALA LUMPUR - Southeast Asian leaders hold a summit in Malaysia Monday seeking to maintain unity in the face of differences over how to respond to China's expanding territorial ambitions at sea.
AFP, Published on 25/04/2015
» KUALA LUMPUR - China's creation of new island footholds in contested seas will hover over a Southeast Asian summit that has become an annual test of the region's nerve in standing up to its massive neighbour.
AFP, Published on 14/04/2015
» MANILA - China has wrought widespread environmental damage in the South China Sea with its construction of artificial islands on disputed reefs, the Philippines said Monday.
AFP, Published on 24/01/2015
» DAVOS - Asean will officially call itself a single market by year's end, but "big things" like seamless travel within the 10-nation bloc would only come in 2020, Malaysia's trade minister told AFP in an interview.
AFP, Published on 13/11/2014
» US President Barack Obama voiced optimism Thursday that Myanmar was on the right path to democracy despite worrying "backsliding" on its much celebrated reform process.
AFP, Published on 04/11/2014
» US President Barack Obama will meet Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi in Rangoon on November 14, during a six-day trip that also includes stops in China and Australia, the White House said Tuesday.
AFP, Published on 06/08/2014
» YANGON - Myanmar faces being called to account for stalling reforms when it hosts a top global diplomats at a security forum later this week, with religious clashes and curbs on press freedom taking the sheen off its emergence from military-rule.