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Kyodo News, Published on 04/08/2022
» Foreign ministers from Japan and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) on Thursday pledged to cooperate in promoting maritime security in the Indo-Pacific in a veiled counter to China's muscle-flexing in regional waters.
Kyodo News, Published on 12/04/2022
» Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is planning to visit Southeast Asia during the Golden Week holidays starting in late April, seeking to strengthen cooperation amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine and China's growing assertiveness in the region, sources said Tuesday.
Kyodo News, Published on 01/03/2022
» The United States will host a special summit meeting with Southeast Asian nations in late March, a US official said on Monday, as the administration of President Joe Biden seeks to step up engagement with the region seen as the key to countering China's increasing clout.
Kyodo News, Published on 06/02/2018
» SINGAPORE: Singapore has proposed that Asean leaders adopt a vision statement at their April summit to demonstrate a unified front as a big-power tussle for regional influence tests the 50-year-old group's cohesiveness.
Kyodo News, Published on 13/05/2017
» A majority of young people in Southeast Asia are confident and optimistic about the future, according to an online survey commissioned by the World Economic Forum and released Friday at an international gathering in Cambodia.
Kyodo News, Published on 25/10/2015
» Southeast Asian countries have charted the course for greater integration over the next 10 years with aims to be the primary force in shaping regional architecture and be more connected economically and socially, according to a draft document set to be adopted by the region's leaders at a summit next month.
Kyodo News, Published on 24/08/2015
» Japan and the five Southeast Asian countries bordering the Mekong River adopted Monday a blueprint to boost industrialisation in the sub-region.
Kyodo News, Published on 07/11/2014
» Ministers of 21 Asia-Pacific countries are set to discuss ways to boost regional integration and adopt a road map toward the creation of a new free trade area at a two-day meeting in Beijing starting today in the run-up to a summit next week.