The Philippines' Supreme Court on Tuesday (Aug 9) ordered an inquiry into four judges whom President Rodrigo Duterte has linked to the drug trade, a day after the Chief Justice criticised the President's name-and-shame campaign in his war on narcotics.
Laos' President Bounnhang Vorachitch will pay an official friendship visit to Myanmar soon, accompanied by Laos' first lady, according to an announcement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Myanmar on Tuesday.
Three Chinese and one Rwandan peacekeepers who were injured in the weekend renewed fighting between two South Sudan rival army factions in the capital, Juba were airlifted Wednesday to Uganda for treatment.
Chinese President Xi Jinping said China will not accept any proposition or action based on the decision Tuesday by the South China Sea arbitral tribunal.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed Vice President Leni Robredo as head of the housing agency.
The Indonesian government on Wednesday gave a warning to foreign ships wishing to intrude the country's waters for illegal fishing.
U.S. President Barack Obama spoke by telephone on Thursday with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta about the need for strong international support for refugees living in the East African country, the White House said.
President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo said on Thursday that the next police chief should focus on battling drug trafficking, terrorism and corruption.
Brazil's chief prosecutor Rodrigo Janot is seeking permission to have top politicians from the governing PMDB party arrested, Brazilian media say.
Brazil's Prosecutor General Rodrigo Janot has asked the Supreme Court (STF) to authorize the arrest of the Senate President Renan Calheiros and other senior politicians, Brazilian newspaper O Globo reported on Tuesday.
It’s been six years of “long days and long nights,” but President Aquino isn’t thinking of taking it easy just yet. “I’ll be working till the last hour of my presidency,” the President told The STAR in a recent interview at Malacañang. “I have to lead by example, and we have six years to do everything we can do. My term ends June 30, noon. We have to be able to face the mirror each day and say, ‘We did the maximum’.”
Tanzanian President John Magufuli on Thursday laid the foundation stone for the construction of a new library at the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM) to be built at a cost of about 40 million U.S. dollars funded by the Chinese government.
A two-day European business summit kicked off here on Wednesday, gathering top officials of the European Union (EU) and 2,000 more participants to debate Europe's future as the continent is faced with tough challenges including migrant crisis, debt crisis and upcoming Britain's EU membership referendum.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and his entourage arrived in Hanoi on May 29, concluding his visit to Japan at the invitation of his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe.
US President Barack Obama met and talked with more than 800 young people at the Young Southeast Asia Leaders Initiative (YSEALI) in Ho Chi Minh City on May 25.
President Pranab Mukherjee arrived in Guanzhou on Tuesday, on a four-day visit to China. The visit will see significant political and economic push to bilateral ties while irritants like Beijing's opposition to India's membership of NSG and the blocking of UN bid to blacklist JeM chief Masood Azhar as a global terrorist will also figure.
Major press agencies around the world on May 23 carried stories about US President Barack Obama’s announcement of fully lifting the embargo on the sale of lethal weapons to Vietnam on the occasion of his ongoing visit to the Southeast Asian country.
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