ASEAN

Myanmar’s armed resistance rejects junta call for surrender

Myanmar’s armed resistance has dismissed an unprecedented call by the junta to surrender as a “sugar-coated offer” by a regime…

2 years ago

Statesman or shark bait?

After blanket denials that China is building a naval facility for its use at Cambodia's Ream Naval Base, Cambodia is…

2 years ago

Two Vietnam villagers complete jail terms for deadly 2020 raid in land dispute

Two villagers who were jailed for “resisting officials on duty” during a deadly January 2020 police raid over a tense…

2 years ago

Hundreds of Rohingya tried to flee Myanmar in past 6 months

More than 600 Rohingya Muslims from western Myanmar’s Rakhine state have been arrested over the last six months trying to…

2 years ago

Chinese leader Xi Jinping signs new rules governing ‘non-war’ military operations

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has signed a directive allowing 'non-war' uses of the military, prompting concerns that Beijing may be…

2 years ago

ASEAN states unlikely to choose sides between US and China, say officials and experts

When Cambodia’s Minister of National Defense General Tea Banh was seen taking a leisurely dip in the Gulf of Thailand…

2 years ago

U.S. attempting to ‘hijack countries in our region’ to target China, Wei Fenghe says

China’s Defense Minister Wei Fenghe delivered scathing remarks about the U.S. Indo-Pacific strategy in a speech in Singapore on Sunday,…

2 years ago

‘We must stop Russia,’ Ukraine’s leader urges Singapore security forum

The future rules of the international order are playing out in Ukraine’s war zones, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told the Shangri-La…

2 years ago

U.S. not seeking to create “Asian NATO,” defense secretary says

The U.S. Defense Secretary emphasized partnership as the main priority for the American security strategy in the Indo-Pacific during a…

2 years ago

Chinese rubber company detains Laos farmer trying to sell crop outside province

Employees of a Chinese-owned rubber company in rural Laos illegally stopped a local rubber tree farmer trying to sell his…

2 years ago

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