Thailand topped the world in terms of rice exports in the first quarter of 2016,

Several members of the US Congress on April 27 urged the Obama administration to help strengthen marine security in the South China Sea

An Indonesian transport official has said ships travelling from the country's Borneo Island to the Philippines need to have an armed escort as piracy in the waters is escalating

Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam was placed under formal investigation on terrorism and murder charges in France on April 27 after his extradition from Belgium...

The United Nations mediator on April 28 called on the leaders of the United States and the Russian Federation to salvage the "barely alive" two-month-old ceasefire in Syria and revitalize the damaged peace process.

The United States warned US citizens in Turkey on April 26 about "credible" terrorist threats to tourist areas in the country.

The United States warned on April 26 it would consider "other" options, which could include new sanctions or security steps, if the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) continued nuclear and ballistic missile testing.

Libya's UN-backed unity government said on April 25 it taken administrative control of seven ministries in Tripoli including the foreign ministry, as it pushes to extend its control over the capital.

Niger's security forces have arrested more than 100 people in the Sahara desert who were trying to illegally cross the country's northern border into neighboring Algeria, security sources said April 25.

The death toll from Ecuador's devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake last week has risen to 654 people

Panamanian investigators on April 22 raided a property used by Mossack Fonseca, the law firm at the center of a massive leak of offshore financial data

Malaysia and the European Union will resume negotiations on their free trade agreement (FTA) in May and June after four years of interruption as Malaysia was focused on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement.

A number of high-ranking leaders of Laos were elected during the ongoing first session of the 8th National Assembly (NA) on the morning of April 20.

At least 21 people including nine children died after a boat capsized off the coast of Myanmar’s Rakhine state on April 19...

ASEAN nations should work together to tackle cross-border crime, said Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak at the Defence Services Asia Exhibition & Conference 2016 in Putrajaya, Malaysia.