Timor-Leste, Southeast Asia’s smallest economy, is now ASEAN’s newest member. On Oct 26, the regional body voted in the island nation as its eleventh member at the ASEAN Summit in Kuala Lumpur.
Membership of ASEAN brings Timor-Leste political visibility and economic opportunity, but also new exposure to disputes.
East Timor is slated to become the 11th member of the ASEAN regional bloc in October, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said Tuesday during a visit to the Southeast Asian nation. The accession ...
The Philippines' Department of National Defence (DND) will push for practical cooperation in the defence sector anchored on ...
ASEAN’s relief capacity remains largely untested in man-made or geopolitical crises. Despite recent efforts to strengthen the ...
Washington stands to gain more from engaging constructively with ASEAN as a bloc, rather than with individual ASEAN states ...
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) -Southeast Asian leaders reached an understanding on Tuesday that any bilateral agreements they might strike with the United States on trade tariffs would not harm the economies ...
The Philippines has long stood at the center of ASEAN’s evolution – from its role in the 1967 Bangkok Declaration to its continuing contributions across ASEAN’s political, economic and socio-cultural ...
Sen. Tammy Duckworth, grilling President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for defense secretary over whether he had the “breadth and depth of knowledge” needed to lead international negotiations, asked ...
THE 53rd Asean Banking Council Meeting was successfully held on November 21 at Novotel Yangon Max Hotel, Yangon in Myanmar, read a statement issued by the Bankers Association of the Philippines (BAP) ...
BANGKOK (AP) — Sen. Tammy Duckworth, grilling President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for defense secretary over whether he had the “breadth and depth of knowledge” needed to lead international ...