Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said on Wednesday that US economic activity remains solid and that the Fed could decide to increase interest rates at its December meeting.

Investigators on Tuesday (Nov 3) began examining the two black boxes from the Russian airliner that crashed in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, as President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said the probe would take time.

A plane carrying the remains of 144 people killed when a Russian airliner crashed in Egypt has arrived in Saint Petersburg.

Singapore’s general election last month cost candidates more than 7.1 million SGD or 5 million USD, the country’s media reported on October 29.

The US and Chinese navies held high-level talks on October 29 after a US warship challenged China's territorial assertions in South China Sea...

Environment ministers from the ASEAN member states reviewed their cooperation in environment sustainability within the framework of the Comprehensive Plan for the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community (ASCC)...

The EU recently approved a 17-point plan to address the influx of migrants into European countries through the Balkan region.

The 13th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Environment (AMME-13) and related meetings are taking place in Hanoi. The meeting, held every 3 years, is is an important event within the framework of ASEAN cooperation on the environment.

Thailand and Laos are ready to sign an agreement on cooperation in maintaining border security and preventing human trafficking, said Thai Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai on October 26.

Defence ministers from ten ASEAN member states and their partners will talk over measures to boost security and defence cooperation for regional peace, sustainability and development...

Indonesian President Joko Widodo said that his country is willing to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in his talks with US President Barrack Obama in the White House on October 26 (local time).

ASEAN and the European Union (EU) agreed to intensify human rights cooperation and policy dialogues at a series of events during an ASEAN delegation’s visit to Belgium’s Brussels from October 19 to 25.

European leaders agreed to cooperate to manage migrants crossing the Balkans but offered no quick fix to a crisis that threatens to take more lives as winter sets in and to set Europe's nations against one another.

About 100 people were injured on October 25 when a ferry returning from Macau to Hong Kong collided with an unknown object, a police department official said.

A second round of highly-charged family reunions brought together relatives split for six decades by the Korean War on Saturday (Oct 24), with around 250 mostly elderly South Koreans crossing into the North.