Myanmar’s National League for Democracy (NLD) has nominated Mr Htin Kyaw, long-time party veteran and close personal friend of party leader Aung San Suu Kyi, for the position of president of Myanmar.
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has pledged continued commitment, within Malaysia's means, to solving the mystery of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, which went missing two years ago.
Ms Aung San Suu Kyi's iron grip on the National League for Democracy (NLD) is evident ahead of the nomination of the party's candidates for President and Vice-Presidents tomorrow, but the selections remain a mystery.
Aung San Suu Kyi's pro-democracy party on Monday (March 7) denounced as "fake" a widely circulated letter purporting to reveal its choice of proxy Myanmar president, as speculation over who will take the role reaches fever pitch.
A Japanese submarine will visit the Philippines for the first time in 15 years, along with two warships that will then sail on to Vietnam.
The eldest daughter of chief steward Andrew Nari, who was on board Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, has taken to Instagram to express her sorrow on the eve of the second anniversary of the plane's disappearance.
Regional markets enjoyed a good run in the past week, but more volatility could be on the cards as attention turns back to slowing China, according to analysts.
Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad's exit from Umno on Monday was no mere strop after failing to force Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak out of office.
Myanmar's National League for Democracy (NLD) leader, Ms Aung San Suu Kyi, barred constitutionally from the country's top office, will take up the foreign affairs portfolio, reports quoting sources said as the deadline for announcing her party's candidate for president draws near.
Pakistan yesterday hanged the man who killed a governor for seeking reform of the blasphemy law, angering Islamist supporters who had feted Mumtaz Qadri as a hero and threatened violence if he was executed.
Singapore's top companies have led from the front in helping to remedy one of the blights on the local corporate scene - the under-representation of women on company boards.
Singapore and China are working on some exploratory ideas to minimise the risk of unplanned encounters at sea, amid increased fears of potential clashes between Chinese and foreign militaries in the contentious South China Sea.
Bombings claimed by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (IS) group killed at least 33 people in a Shiite area of Baghdad Sunday, officials said, the deadliest attacks in the Iraqi capital this year.
Pakistan has arrested 20 Indian fisherman for violating the territorial waters of the country, its maritime security agency said on Sunday (Feb 28).
Billionaire Donald Trump heads into the biggest day of the primary season tomorrow under heavy fire as the Republican Party establishment makes a last-ditch effort to halt his insurgent campaign.
Laos kicks off its Asean chairmanship today with an agenda-setting foreign ministers' retreat in Vientiane, its capital on the east bank of the Mekong River.
The perpetrators of last year's deadly explosion at a Bangkok shrine originally chose a pier packed with Chinese tourists as their primary target and had amassed enough chemicals to make 10 equally powerful bombs, the chief of Thailand's police bomb squad told Reuters.
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