When the leaders of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) gather for the 31st ASEAN Summit in the Philippines in November 2017, they will also celebrate ‘ASEAN at 50’ — a testimony to ...

More than 600,000 Rohingya Muslims have been displaced from their Myanmar homes in what has been described as the “fastest growing refugee crisis in the world.” An estimated of at least 6,700 members ...

This week, officials from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) met to review and discuss ongoing regional cooperation to combat transnational crimes. The meeting, held in the Philippine ...

While it is true that ASEAN has been successful in giving a complex region a sense of identity and largely avoiding interstate conflict, it may well be that its use-by-date is coming. This is not only ...

BANGKOK (AP) — Former Association of Southeast Asian Nations Secretary-General Surin Pitsuwan has died in Thailand. He was 68. Thailand’s Democrat Party said Surin died Thursday in Bangkok of a sudden ...

On New Year’s Day 2018, Singapore will formally succeed the Philippines as the chairman of ASEAN, which plays a leading role in the Indo-Asia-Pacific by shaping the region’s multilateral architecture.

ASEAN’s combined nominal gross domestic product (GDP) is already over US$2.8 trillion (S$3.8 trillion) and if counted as a single entity, it would rank sixth in the world, behind the United States, ...

October 18, 2017 - Maekyung Media Group held its 18th World Knowledge Forum (WKF) at the Jangchung Arena in Seoul last week under the theme “Inflection Point: Towards New Prosperity.” The annual forum ...

WASHINGTON/BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Oct 26 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden joined Southeast Asian leaders for a virtual summit on Tuesday, the first time in four years that Washington has engaged at ...

Whenever we host events like the ASEAN Summit, the biggest concern of people is that it will cause traffic. We have to change that. It has to become relevant in the lives of every citizen in the ...