There will be over 300 meetings of all levels involving ASEAN member countries this year which Malaysia will play host. So, it’s inequitable for anyone to write off Malaysia’s ASEAN Chairmanship by ...

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said the situation in Myanmar and the development of cryptocurrencies were among topics he had discussed with former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra.In a ...

Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s appointment of two former prime ministers as “special advisors” points to a gap between his ...

There has been considerable hype around Malaysia taking over the chairmanship of Southeast Asian bloc ASEAN this year, with ...

Beyond the mundane 44 paragraphs of the Chairman's Statement of the Asean Ministers' Retreat in Langkawi, there are crucial elements worth mentioning and following up on.As the Myanmar crisis enters ...

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

After three years of failed diplomacy, the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) has upped the ante and warned the military junta in Myanmar to end the civil war and allow the free flow of ...

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

The Myanmar military seized power in February 2021 ... Hasan told reporters after the meeting of ASEAN foreign ministers on the Malaysian island of Langkawi. "The priority now is [for a] ceasefire and ...

LANGKAWI, Malaysia — Malaysia is committed to addressing regional issues, but expectations on Myanmar and the advancing of talks on a code of conduct between the 10-member Association of ...

LANGKAWI, Malaysia — Southeast Asian nations told Myanmar's military government on Sunday (Jan 19) its plan to hold an election amid an escalating civil war should not be its priority ...