The 11th ASEAN-China Forum on Social Development and Poverty Reduction kicked off in Siem Reap, Cambodia, on July 25.

The Revolutionary Front of Independent East Timor (FRETILIN), gained 31 percent of votes in the parliamentary election as 78 percent of votes counted as by July 23 noon.

The UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) has concluded its 2017 High-level Segment (HLS) by approving a minister-level statement on commitments of participating countries to the UN 2030

Thailand’s Supreme Court has set August 25 as the date for a verdict in the trial of former Prime Minister (PM) Yingluck Shinawatra, who is accused of wasting billions of US dollar on a controversial rice-pledging scheme.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) upgraded its growth outlook for Asia from 5.7 percent to 5.9 percent in 2017 and from 5.7 percent to 5.8 percent for 2018 in a new report released on July 19.

The Malaysian health authorities have raised concerns over a comeback of infectious diseases, such as TB, leptospirosis and rabies, which were once put under control in the country.

Malaysia’s Narcotics Criminal Investigation Department (NCID) has just busted a big transnational drug trafficking ring, the agency’s director Mohd Mokhtar Mohd Shariff said at a press conference on July 16.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte admitted that the US has been supplying weaponry to the country to fight Maute terrorists in Marawi city in southern Mindanao islands.

China has called for deeper cooperation with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to achieve mutual development as the bloc is marking its 50th founding anniversary this year.

The Governor of the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) aims to improve the country’s earnings from tourism as a global top seven, while revealing that 18.2 million tourists had visited the Kingdom during the first half of 2017.

Thailand and Myanmar have reached a deal on the issuance of official documents to Myanmar workers, allowing them to work legally in the country, according to local media.

The chief negotiators from the 11 Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) countries met in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Representatives from 11 Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) member countries are expected to meet in Hakone town, west of Tokyo, Japan on July 12.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc delivered a strong plea for international cooperation in fighting climate change while addressing a panel discussion of the G20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany, on July 7.

A high-ranking delegation of the Vietnam People’s Army attended the Chiefs of Defence Conference on United Nations peacekeeping in New York, the US, on July 6-7.