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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Myanmar's junta chief Min Aung Hlaing will attend a regional leaders' summit in the Thai capital next week and is seeking bilateral meetings on the sidelines, three sources with direct knowledge said on Friday.
BANGKOK (Reuters) -Aid groups arriving in the worst-hit areas of Myanmar said there was an urgent need for shelter, food and water after last week's devastating quake which killed more than 2,000 people, including 50 preschoolers in one school.
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has announced that Vietnam may buy Embraer planes and become a regional hub for Brazilian meat processing operations, as he met Vietnam's President Luong Cuong in Hanoi.
BANGKOK: Myanmar's junta chief Min Aung Hlaing will attend a regional leaders' summit in the Thai capital next week and is seeking bilateral meetings on the sidelines, three sources with direct knowledge said on Friday (March 28).
VIENTIANE: Southeast Asian leaders pressed Myanmar's junta and its opponents on Wednesday (Oct 9) to take "concrete action" to stop the bloodshed in the country's civil war and sought to kickstart faltering diplomatic efforts to solve the crisis.
KUALA LUMPUR: Asean plans to hold a summit with the United States so its member countries can present their views on planned US tariffs, says Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Mohamad Hasan.
Malaysia will hold an inaugural joint summit for China, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and a key bloc of Middle East states in May as they navigate global trade tensions, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said.
Here's a look at the news highlights from Asean countries in the Star-AseanPlus section for Tuesday (March 25, 2025)
VIENTIANE: US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin expressed regret Wednesday (Nov 20) that his Chinese counterpart chose not to hold talks with him during meetings of Southeast Asian defence chiefs in Laos, calling it a setback for the entire region.
PORT DICKSON: The selection of Port Dickson as one of the Asean Summit meeting locations is expected to significantly boost the district’s tourism by promoting its beauty to Southeast Asian countries.
KUNMING: Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra met Myanmar's junta chief on the sidelines of a regional summit in China on Thursday (Nov 7), in a rare overseas trip by a general grappling with a civil war at home.
SEOUL: President Yoon Suk-yeol will visit the Philippines, Singapore and Laos next week to attend the summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) and hold bilateral talks, his office said Thursday (Oct 3).
VIENTIANE: South-East Asian defense chiefs and representatives are meeting in the Laotian capital on Wednesday (Nov 20) for security talks at a time of increasing maritime disputes with China in the Asia-Pacific and as the transition to a new US president looms.
When over-worked Southeast Asian leaders arrive in Vientiane in Laos for the Asean Summit next week, they will be mindful of the global tensions that could upend the region’s growth prospects and stability.
PHNOM PENH: The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) has consolidated Asean's regional integration and fostered mutually beneficial economic relations, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet said on Thursday (March 6).
South-East Asian leaders led by Indonesian host President Joko Widodo are gathering in their final summit this year, besieged by divisive issues with no solutions in sight: Myanmar’s deadly civil strife, new flare-ups in the disputed South China Sea, and the longstanding United States-China rivalry.
VIENTIANE: South-East Asian leaders met in Laos on Wednesday (Oct 9) for a summit expected to find ways of tackling a worsening civil war in Myanmar, with Thailand set to propose a new path for a political solution after a regional peace effort made scant progress.
VIENTIANE: Myanmar has sent a representative to a regional summit this week for the first time in three years as the ruling junta struggles to quell a civil war.
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN (Reuters) -Southeast Asian leaders sharply criticised Myanmar's junta as a regional summit opened on Tuesday without a representative from the country, following its top general's exclusion for ignoring a peace roadmap agreed six months ago.
Vice-President Kamala Harris will deepen her outreach to South-East Asia this week at an international summit in Jakarta, Indonesia, where she'll try to erase doubts about U.S. commitment to the region stirred by President Joe Biden's absence.
