In August, the ministry overseeing primary education issued a circular announcing the recruitment of music teachers -- a decision that the interim government has now reversed.

The moment of levity underscored how the two leaders had grown closer during a series of encounters over two days, the South Korean president's spokesman said.

Traces of radioactive Caesium-137 were detected in the 23 containers in Indonesia, which "rejected and reexported" them back to the Philippines, an official in Jakarta said Friday.

A deal under which Islamabad will take delivery of eight Hangor-class submarines by 2028 is "progressing smoothly," Admiral Naveed Ashraf told the Global Times in an interview published on Sunday, adding the submarines would boost Pakistan's ability to patrol the North Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean.

President Prabowo Subianto and South Korean President Lee Jae-myung have expressed their hope to continue the two countries’ defense cooperation, including on existing collaboration to develop fighter jets, on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Gyeongju.

The United States Secretary of Defense proposed to ASEAN defense ministers the building of shared maritime domain awareness and said China had shown a lack of respect and threatened their territorial sovereignty.

Solidarity from people in other Southeast Asian nations may help support a people’s movement in a country and put more pressure on the government to make reforms on policies, experts and activists have said.

The Shenzhou-21 crew were also joined by four black mice, the first small mammals to be taken to the Chinese space station.

Wildlife trade monitor TRAFFIC, which battles the smuggling of wild animals and plants, warned in June of a "very troubling" trend in trafficking driven by the exotic pet trade.

The containers have been sitting in Manila Bay since Oct. 20 as authorities wrangle with the company they say the shipment originated from.

For over two thousand years, India and Indonesia have exchanged more than trade. From ancient temples and batik patterns to numeral systems, this enduring dialogue of cultures continues to shape the world’s intellectual and artistic heritage.

The US has sought to shore up its presence in Southeast Asia and counter the growing influence of China.

Inclusivity should be APEC’s guiding principle, as exclusive growth is divisive that may lead to instability and jeopardize peace and prosperity, President Prabowo Subianto told leaders at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit.

The President is expected to underscore multilateralism, peace and economic cooperation at the Asia-Pacific Leaders' Summit in South Korea, his penultimate international engagement for this year.

Trump called his first meeting with Xi in six years a "great success", while the Chinese leader said the two reached an "important consensus" towards solving the fight between the world's two top economies.

The US president, who minutes before said he has ordered the Pentagon to start nuclear weapons testing on a level with China and Russia, complimented a smiling Xi as a "very tough negotiator" as they shook hands.

ASEAN has decided against sending observers to the Myanmar military regime’s planned election in late December, Foreign Minister Sugiono said, because doing so would risk lending the bloc’s stamp of approval.

Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, who will remain chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) until the end of the year, symbolically passed the gavel to Filipino President Ferdinand Marcos at the close of a summit in Kuala Lumpur.

The meeting Thursday might yield a truce in the trade war between the world's top two economies, a possible grand finale to Trump's Asia tour marked by praise, pomp and even a replica gold crown from South Korea's leader.

Australia last month agreed to pay Nauru A$2.5 billion ($1.6 billion) over three decades to host several hundred deported non-citizens.

ASEAN and China have signed an upgrade to their free trade agreement, strengthening regional economic cooperation and modernizing the bloc’s trade framework with its largest trading partner.

Abhisit shared insights into his pivotal political decisions and reflected on the evolving political dynamics in Southeast Asia.

A cohort of around 350 immigrants -- many of them convicted of serious crimes including assault, drug smuggling and even murder -- could eventually be sent to the low-lying atoll after Australia failed to resettle them elsewhere. 

Australia will from December 10 force social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and TikTok to remove users under the age of 16. 

President Prabowo Subianto has returned to Jakarta from Malaysia ahead of schedule, following a busy weekend at the ASEAN Summit, which saw Southeast Asian leaders sit down with United States President Donald Trump to hash out new deals, the United Nations chief call for an end to violence in Myanmar and the welcoming of the bloc's 11th member Timor-Leste after a 14-year wait.

Speaking on Air Force One, Trump said he was hopeful of a deal when he sees Xi on Thursday in South Korea, while also indicating he was willing to extend his trip in order to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

Junta chief Min Aung Hlaing has billed the December 28 polls as a step towards reconciliation in the civil war unleashed by his 2021 coup.

A US Navy helicopter and a fighter jet went down in the waters of the South China Sea on Sunday in two separate incidents, the US Pacific Fleet said on X. 

The first crash involved a MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter, which "went down in the waters of the South China Sea while conducting routine operations from the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz," according to a statement from the US Navy's Pacific Fleet.

Timor-Leste’s long-awaited admission into ASEAN and United States President Donald Trump’s attendance, his first since returning to office, have dominated the first day of the bloc’s 47th summit on Sunday, when its members reiterated the importance of unity and cooperation amid rising global tensions.