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AFP, Published on 07/09/2022
» Russian President Vladimir Putin hailed "positive" ties with Myanmar on Wednesday as he met with the country's junta chief Min Aung Hlaing in Russia's far eastern city of Vladivostok.
AFP, Published on 05/08/2022
» Southeast Asian foreign ministers urged restraint Thursday as China launched massive military drills off Taiwan, warning the situation risked spiralling into "open conflicts".
AFP, Published on 03/05/2021
» LONDON - Britain this week hosts the first face-to-face meeting of G7 foreign ministers in two years, joined by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, as world powers tackle pandemic recovery plus growing tensions with Russia and China.
AFP, Published on 10/03/2019
» YANGON: Nine policemen have been killed in a militant attack in Myanmar's western Rakhine state, police said on Sunday, as tensions ratchet up in a state riven by ethnic and religious conflict.
AFP, Published on 14/09/2018
» HANOI: Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday robustly defended the jailing of two Reuters journalists for reporting massacres by the military at the height of the Rohingya ethnic cleansing. She received quick global criticism for it.
AFP, Published on 26/04/2018
» BORACAY, Philippines: The Philippines shuttered its most famous holiday island Boracay to tourists on Thursday for a six-month clean-up, which the government has imposed with a muscular show of its security forces.
AFP, Published on 01/07/2016
» SYDNEY - From the harsh desert Outback to the frozen reaches of Antarctica, Australians at remote locations have been casting their votes ahead of Saturday's national election.
AFP, Published on 25/02/2016
» Transnational crime is booming in Southeast Asia, the UN warned Thursday, aided by rapid regional economic integration and patchy cross-border police work.
AFP, Published on 31/12/2015
» WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama will host leaders from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Rancho Mirage, California on February 15 and 16, the White House said Wednesday.
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.