The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) under the Philippine chairmanship in 2026 will try to play a larger role on issues besetting the region, including on the Myanmar crisis and the South China Sea,

Foreign secretary Enrique Manalo says Asean’s vulnerability to climate change should elevate the issue on the bloc’s priority list.

Malaysia is committed to addressing regional issues, but expectations on Myanmar and the advancing of talks on a code of conduct between the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) and China for the South China Sea should be tempered,

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.

Foreign ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) discussed developments in the South China Sea (SCS), Myanmar and the Middle East during a retreat in Langkawi, Malaysia on Sunday.

LANGKAWI, Malaysia - Southeast Asian foreign ministers hold a closed-doors retreat in Malaysia on Sunday, as the country hosts its first meeting as chair of the regional bloc Asean amid an intensifying civil war in Myanmar and confrontations in the South China Sea.

LANGKAWI, Malaysia -- Claims that Donald Trump and key aides have little interest in Southeast Asia are "speculation", the Philippine Foreign Secretary has said in a bid to dampen anxiety in the region two days ahead of the American president-elect's return to the White House.

LANGKAWI, Malaysia (Reuters) - The regional bloc ASEAN and China ... Philippine Foreign Minister Enrique Manalo said discussions on a code were well underway, but it was time to start thrashing out the meatier, trickier aspects. "It's time that we try ...

The newly installed Trump administration has quickly reaffirmed America’s strong support for the Philippines in the face of an increasingly aggressive China in the disputed South China Sea, despite doubts to the contrary voiced by some observers.

Malaysia's Foreign Minister Mohamad Hasan, Philippines's Foreign Affairs Secretary Enrique Manalo, Brunei Darussalam Foreign Minister Erywan Yusof, Cambodia's Secretary of State Kung Phoak ...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Chinese coast guard ships and a Chinese navy helicopter harassed a group of Philippine fisheries vessels conducting a scientific survey in a hotly disputed area of the South China Sea, forcing them to cancel the operation, the Philippine coast guard said Saturday.

LANGKAWI (Bernama): Malaysia’s Foreign Minister ... The Philippines’ Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Enrique A. Manalo, arrived on Thursday. Meanwhile, the Foreign Ministers of Cambodia ...