ASEAN member states are attending a seminar on combating piracy and maritime terrorism in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from February 24-26.

British actor Eddie Redmayne has won the best actor Oscar for The Theory of Everything, while Julianne Moore picked up best actress for Still Alice.

Vietnam has achieved much since reunification in 1975, but the country still has much to do in comparison to other countries, said Nguyen Tri Dung, who is Vietnamese-Japanese.

The new and the old have hardly ever lived in harmony. In international relations, the means of addressing conflicts between the new and the old are decisive factors to international life each year.

Indonesia's biggest low-cost airline was left scrambling Friday (Feb 20)

The leaders of Japan and five Southeast Asian countries lying along the Mekong River sub-region plan to craft a new strategy with Tokyo’s greater contributions to the sub-region’s sustainable development beyond 2015.

An ASEAN Community with a unified economy, an open market, and cultural diversity will be established by the end of this year.

The European Union blacklisted more Ukrainian separatists and Russian backers to protest the destabilization of Ukraine.

An international team of scientists is to try to develop a wholly artificial vaccine to combat polio.

The world's oceans are clogged with plastic debris, but how much of it finds its way into the seas annually?

Japan has pledged to continue its support for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in achieving a higher level of sustainability, prosperity and integration for peace and stability in the region.

Greek and eurozone officials have failed to reach an agreement over Greece's debt crisis, though both sides said there was still hope for a deal.

East Timor's president chose former health minister Rui Araujo to be the country’s new prime minister, the government said on Tuesday.

A man has been killed in a shark attack on the New South Wales north coast, police say, a day after another man was injured by a shark in the same area.

Singaporean President Tony Tan Keng Yam paid an official visit to India from February 8-11 at the invitation of his Indian counterpart Pranab Mukherjee.