ASEAN News

TOKYO – Japan and India are now looking to expand cooperation with with ASEAN nations after their recent move to cooperate with each other in various tech and critical information infrastructure areas. In the Asean region, both country are particularly looking at the Indo-Pacific cybersecurity. The cybersecurity cooperation and collaboration activities between ASEAN and Japan was one of the major …

SINGAPORE – Hong Kong and Singapore announced on Friday that it has agrred to set up a travel bubble that will allow residents to travel between the two countries as long as they passed the Covid-19 screening. Under the agreement, residents of both cities wanting to travel must test negative for the Covid-19 virus and will be flying only on …

HANOI – Vietnam and Japan have formally agreed to implement a new policy that will allow certain groups from one country to enter another without undergoing the usual mandatory 14-day quarantine. According to the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the new policy will be taking effect starting November 1. after an agreement was reached during the Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide …

Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Luo Zhaohui, Chinese Ambassador to ASEAN Deng Xijun with ASEAN Secretary-General Lim Jock Hoi and ASEAN Deputy Secretary-General Kung Phoak takes part in the virtual opening of the ASEAN-China Young Leaders Scholarship (ACYLS) 2020 with the aim of enhancing people-to-people exchanges between the two partners. According to Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Luo the ASEAN-China Young Leaders …

NANNING – The recent China-Asean education exhibition held in capital of south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Nanning, has embraced the steadily increasing demand for smart educational equipment. The event set up seven showrooms with great variety of educational equipment for all ages as well as providing seminars and training services to participants. President of the Guangxi Educational Equipment Industry …

MANILA – The US Navy deployed has deployed their Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group to resume maritime security operations in the region. The Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group comprises of USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) aircraft carrier with embarked Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 5 and Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser USS Antietam (CG 54). SS Halsey (DDG 97) and USS John …

MANILA – Beijing and Manila announced that they have reached an agreement on the joint exploration of oil and gas resources in the South China Sea. The announcement came after President Rodrigo Duterte lifted the ban on oil and gas exploration in the contested West Philippine Sea area. According to Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China …

JAKARTA – Indonesia on Thursday (Oct 15) with 4,411 new coronavirus infections reported, The country has taken over Philippines as South-east Asia’s new pandemic hotspot. The world’s fourth most populous nation’s recorded total of 349,160 with 12,268 deaths, also the highest in the South East Region. Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan announced that Jakarta will start a two-week transitional period in …

KUALA LUMPUR – China’s State Councillor Wang Yi, said on Tuesday (Oct. 13) that China and the member states of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) should practice cooperation and remove “external disruption” in the South China Sea. Wang, in a joint news conference with Malaysia’s foreign minister Hishammuddin Hussein said that both countries are in the same …

KUALA LUMPUR – Malaysia’s Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein met his counterpart from China, Wang Yi and reaffirm the two country’s commitment on solving several issues of importance. In a released joint press statement, both country reiterated their commitment to promote the key relations of both countries on the basis of equality and mutual respect and win-win cooperation. Key …