The junta’s pariah status undermines its capacity to influence major decisions within the bloc, says Ramos-Horta ...

The regime accused Timor Leste of violating ASEAN’s non-interference principle by supporting anti-junta forces.

PETALING JAYA: As Malaysia marks the midpoint of its Asean 2025 chairmanship, five key developments are quietly shaping the ...

Timor-Leste will officially become ASEAN's 11th member later this year, according to the Foreign Ministry's Director General ...

Analysts say inclusive partnerships and a permanent Myanmar envoy are wins—but regional disputes could test the bloc’s unity.

Southeast Asian lawmakers demand urgent action to free aging democracy icons – including Daw Aung San Suu Kyi – at next ...

The Myanmar junta continues to use imprisonment not as a tool of justice, but as an instrument of repression, while ASEAN ...

The recent controversy surrounding Myanmar’s reported opposition to Timor-Leste’s accession to Asean has brought renewed attention to the fragilities of the ...

Cambodian Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn speaks during a Special ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting on the situation in Myanmar in Jakarta, Indonesia, October 27, 2022.

Since Myanmar’s generals seized power in 2021 and plunged the country into civil war, the main regional group, ASEAN, has proved too ineffective and impotent to respond.

Southeast Asian nations have told Myanmar’s military government its plan to hold an election amid an escalating civil war ...