Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim yesterday held a meeting with former Prime Minister of Thailand, Thaksin Shinawatra.

The bloc says that any poll must be “inclusive,” but it has limited power to deter the junta from its election plans.

Jakarta—The Asean Foreign Ministers’ Retreat held Jan. 18 to 19 in Langkawi, Malaysia, presents a crucial opportunity for Asean to shift its approaches in addressing the ongoing crisis in ...

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) under the Philippine chairmanship in 2026 will try to play a larger role ...

Despite Asean’s call to prioritise peace over a sham election, Myanmar’s military rulers appear bent on clinging to power no ...

Myanmar’s deepening crisis has been forgotten or ignored by most nations, except perhaps the member-states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and neighbours such as China and ...

Malaysian diplomat Othman Hashim faces the weary task of engaging the junta and persuading it to abide by a Five-Point ...

Khin Ohmar is an award-winning Burmese democracy and human rights activist and Chair of the Advisory Board of Progressive Voice. Today marks four years since the people of Myanmar began their ...

At the Asean Foreign Ministers’ Retreat in Langkawi on Sunday, Malaysia’s Foreign Affairs Minister Mohamad Hasan said that Myanmar’s military government should focus on restoring peace ...

The ASEAN regional bloc ... Already, the millions of Myanmar migrants living in Thailand have precipitated anti-migrant protests and mass arrests. So, given the combustible state of the country ...