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Jan 24, 2025 · Bringing Asia Closer. 429-day ordeal ends for 17 Philippine seafarers held by Yemeni rebels. The Filipinos and eight other foreign seafarers were held hostage after their cargo ship, MV Galaxy Leader, came under Houthi attack in the Red Sea on Nov. 19, 2023.

3 days ago · January 28, 2025. KUALA LUMPUR – AS the Myanmar crisis approaches its fourth year, everyone is asking if Malaysia, a founding member of the group that has taken over the chairmanship, can really do anything to end the violence that has claimed 5,350 lives and displaced 3.3 million people.. It’s not just the scale of the destruction that has caused some to label the latest Myanmar civil war ...

Jan 16, 2025 · Ironic twist: Chinese app Xiaohongshu hosts more US-China interactions amid looming TikTok ban. With the clock ticking down to TikTok’s likely closure in the US within days, some of its American users have migrated to the Chinese Instagram-like …

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3 days ago · January 28, 2025. SEOUL – The arrest of President Yoon Suk Yeol and ongoing political turmoil over the fallout from his botched Dec. 3 martial law declaration have sparked mixed reactions from the foreign resident community. Though some view the crisis as a temporary setback unlikely to impact the country’s long-term stability, …

January 15, 2025. KUALA LUMPUR – The ASEAN Chairmanship 2025 will extend beyond high-level meetings, encompassing a range of activities and programmes, aimed at engaging communities at the grassroots level across Malaysia, said Secretary-General of the Foreign Ministry Datuk Seri Amran Mohamed Zin.. Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday, Amran said that a total of 29 programmes have been ...

November 27, 2024. VIENTIANE – ASEAN member states and China are strengthening cooperation in defence and security, with their growing partnership discussed at the 11th ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting Plus in Vientiane last week.. The meeting was attended by Laos’ Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defence, General Chansamone, China’s Defence Minister Admiral Dong Jun ...

Asia News Network (ANN) is the leading regional alliance of news titles striving to bring the region closer, through an active sharing of editorial content on happenings in the region. Born as a grouping of nine media titles in March 1999, ANN now includes 20 leading titles, based in major capitals of the region.

September 15, 2023. JAKARTA – The 43rd ASEAN Summit, held under the leadership of Indonesia in Jakarta, was a limited success. On the back of the high expectations toward Indonesia’s ASEAN chairmanship, the summit had to deal with the unresolved crisis in Myanmar and the heightening tension in the South China Sea, among other issues.