There will be over 300 meetings of all levels involving ASEAN member countries this year which Malaysia will play host. So, it’s inequitable for anyone to write off Malaysia’s ASEAN Chairmanship by ...

CIVICUS, a global civil society alliance calls on ASEAN to stop enabling Myanmar junta’s continuing brutal oppression against its citizens. Four years into the coup regime, the Association of ...

Chinese travelers are canceling plans to visit Thailand during the Lunar New Year holiday, as fears over human trafficking ...

Despite Asean’s call to prioritise peace over a sham election, Myanmar’s military rulers appear bent on clinging to power no ...

At the Asean Foreign Ministers’ Retreat in Langkawi on Sunday, Malaysia ... in Myanmar.” Observers warn that the junta’s planned elections – promised for November – will do little ...

Crimes against humanity, a growing hunger crisis, and over 2,600 rebel groups: Myanmar’s brutal civil war continues to worsen ...

Balankura acknowledged that Asean members have noted that there has been little progress in the grouping’s so-called five-point consensus on Myanmar, prompting some to reconsider the approach.

The internet has fallen in love with an elephant calf born to Asian elephant Rose-Tu on Saturday. The Oregon Zoo has yet to ...

Myanmar’s junta now only controls 21% of the country. Even if the regime can be ousted, there are increasing fears the ...

MYANMAR’S ongoing civil war has reached a critical point, with the rise of ethnic armed organisations significantly altering ...

Intense conflict in Myanmar’s Rakhine State has worsened the plight of the Rohingya, a persecuted and stateless Muslim minority, pushing increasing numbers to flee by boat.

“I suggest you do a little homework,” she said. The 10 members of ASEAN are Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. Timor-Leste and ...