Association of Southeast Asian Nations appoints Malaysian diplomat Othman Hashim special envoy to Myanmar - Anadolu Ajansı

Myanmar has been in turmoil since 2021 when its military overthrew the government of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.

Southeast Asian foreign ministers are gathering for their first meeting this year under the regional bloc’s new chair, Malaysia, seeking a breakthrough over Myanmar’s drawn-out civil war and territorial disputes in the South China Sea.

ASEAN's fifth envoy to Myanmar, Tan Sri Othman Hashim, appointed during the bloc's meeting of foreign ministers.

Southeast Asian foreign ministers told Myanmar s junta to prioritise a ceasefire in its civil war over fresh elections during a

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With the growing importance of the Indo-Pacific for economic growth and increasing turmoil in the South China Sea (SCS), India has redoubled its efforts to have closer cooperation with Southeast Asian nations,

China vowed on Jan. 21 to continue participating in two cornerstone multinational arrangements -- the World Health Organization and Paris Climate Accord -- after newly sworn-in US President Donald Trump ordered withdrawals from them.

Then we have Singapore. Apparently, 11.6 per cent of our population are overweight. We are tied in third place with Thailand. The complete list goes: Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines (9.3%), Indonesia (6.9%), Myanmar (5.8%), Laos (5.6%), Cambodia (3.8%), Vietnam (1.7%), and Timor-Leste (1.1%).

The Vietnamese embassies in Singapore and Brunei and the Nguyen Du Lao-Vietnamese bilingual language school in Vientiane, Laos have organised activities for Vietnamese there to celebrate the traditional Lunar New Year (Tet) festival.

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 much-needed humanitarian aid.