People in Thailand are joyfully celebrating Songkran – the traditional New Year festival of the country.
India's mammoth general election began on April 11, with people starting to line up outside polling stations in the world's biggest democratic exercise that will be carried out in seven phases.
A shipyard in northern England that builds Britain's new generation of nuclear submarines was evacuated on April 10 but the atomic safety regulator said there had been no nuclear incident.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on April 8 strongly condemned the military escalation and ongoing fighting in and around Libya's capital Tripoli, and asked for an immediate end to violence, said his spokesman.
Participants in the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) 2019 concluded on April 7, calling on stakeholders to increase collaboration on social, economic and climate issues to address regional challenges.
Economic growth in Laos is expected to remain stable in 2019 and 2020 – backed by the expansion of the agriculture, energy, industry, and service sectors – according to the Vientiane Times’ quoting of the latest report of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on April 4.
HBO - The ASEAN Defence Senior Officials’ Meeting Plus (ADSOM+) took place in Thailand’s Phetchaburi province on April 4.
The Philippines’s economy is poised to grow at 6.4 percent in 2019 and 6.5 percent in 2020-2021 amid lingering global and local uncertainties, according to a report released by the World Bank (WB) on April 1st.
The 30th Arab League (AL) Summit concluded in Tunis, Tunisia, with a 17-chapter joint declaration, calling on support from the international community to address regional challenges, in which, priority issues related to the Palestinian statehood, Golan Heights, and conflicts in Libya and Syria. The summit delivered a message about strengthening internal solidarity and promoting dialogue.
British Prime Minister Theresa May has to consider what next steps she and her government will take on Brexit after lawmakers on Monday (April 1) night rejected for a second time an alternative list of options aimed at breaking the current Brexit deadlock.
A national remembrance service has been organized in New Zealand to commemorate the victims of the shooting attacks at the two mosques in the quiet city of Christchurch two weeks ago.
The Election Commission (EC) of Thailand on March 28th announced the results of the country’s general election which took place four days earlier.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen announced on March 25th that he has approved a budget of USD15 million to purchase armoured vehicles for the country’s peacekeeping forces operating in Mali.
The death toll after a powerful cyclone in Mozambique has risen to 217 and around 15,000 people, many of them very ill, still need to be rescued, a government minister said on March 21.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif agreed on March 19 to work towards a settlement of the Venezuelan crisis.
Authorities in Indonesia raised the death toll from floods and landslides in the easternmost province of Papua to nearly 80 on March 18 as President Joko Widodo called for the urgent evacuation of victims from devastated communities.
Relatives of victims who perished in an Ethiopian Airlines crash gathered in the Ethiopian capital on Sunday (March 17) to mourn their loved ones, one week after a Nairobi-bound Boeing 737 Max 8 went down just minutes after take-off.
A Boeing 737 MAX 8 operated by Ethiopian Airlines crashed on Sunday morning, just minutes after taking off from from Addis Ababa. All 157 people on board were killed. The disaster happened less than five months after another 737 MAX 8 went down off the coast of Indonesiain late October, killing 189 people.
Turkey has officially entered its first economic recession in the past ten years. In the context of the alliance between Turkey and the United States not "going smoothly”, economic difficulties and a host of other domestic and foreign issues have put President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the face of big challenges, as the country is preparing to hold municipal elections.
NDO – The official visit to Iraq by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, which started on March 11, has been drawing special attention from the public. Iran is striving to expand its economic ties aiming to cope with US sanctions, while Iraq is also seeking resources in service of national reconstruction. The urgent goals have motivated the two neighbours to come closer together, regardless of pressure from the outside.
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyen Quoc Dung, who is head of Vietnam’s ASEAN SOM, attended the ASEAN Senior Officials’ Meeting (SOM) held in Chiang Rai, Thailand, from March 6th-8th.
World food prices rose in February, lifted in part by a jump in dairy prices, the United Nations food agency said on March 7.
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said on March 6 that the United States would continue to have conversations with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).
The 11th Coordinating Conference for the ASEAN Political-Security Community (APSC) took place at the ASEAN Secretariat’s headquarters in Jakarta on March 5 to review the implementation of the APSC Blueprint 2025.
Brexit minister Stephen Barclay has asked the European Union for its "formal views" on a proposal to preserve citizens' rights regardless of whether a Brexit deal is agreed, according a letter published by the government on March 5.
