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Maritime issue in spotlight as Asia summit season winds down
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.
Asia-Pacific summit season to wrap up
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.
Terrorism, sea dispute top Asean agenda
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.
SE Asia holds summit amid differences over China
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.
China's island-building to loom large at Asean summit
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.
Manila: China reclamation damaging reefs
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.
Asean to declare single market but delays deeper integration: Malaysia
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.
Obama optimistic on Myanmar democracy despite concerns
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.
Obama to meet Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar
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.
Myanmar rights under the microscope at Asean meeting
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.