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Myanmar Junta Threatens To Skip ASEAN Open Summit

ASEAN begins a summit this week amid uncertainty over Myanmar’s participation after the regional bloc barred the Burmese junta chief

A pop duet taking aim at China’s army of nationalistic “Little Pink” commentators and trolls has garnered nearly 10 million

By Ronna Nirmala At least 600 plantation companies have illegal operations in Indonesian forests, including in national parks, wetlands, and

China is demanding the United States stop its freedom of navigation operations in the South China Sea, and has accused

Authorities in the southern Philippines have arrested a suspected Abu Sayyaf militant, who acted as a ransom negotiator and was

By Shailaja Neelakantan ASEAN will invite a “non-political representative” from Myanmar to its summit this month, the bloc’s chair said

By Sharif Khiam At least four people were killed and dozens injured in southwest Bangladesh late Wednesday when law enforcement

The United States is denying China’s accusation that it has been covering up a submarine collision that occurred earlier this month in

By Mariyam Ahmad Thai forces killed another suspected rebel on Thursday in the country’s Deep South, officials said, as part

A U.S. nuclear submarine “struck an object while submerged” in the South China Sea last weekend, the U.S. Navy said,