ASEAN – Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom stated today that their 51-year-old Five Power Defence Arrangements (FPDA) treaty was robust, current, and critical to managing increasing regional tensions. Following their discussion on the margins of the Shangri-La Dialogue, the officials told a press conference that the member states’ relationship was friendly, and that they were focused …

Hong Kong – Nathan Law, an exiled Hong Kong activist, released his first English-language book, Freedom, on Thursday, warning of the worldwide danger posed by Chinese authoritarianism. Law, 29, was a key activist in the pro-democracy Umbrella Movement demonstrations in the former British colony in 2014. At the age of 23, he was elected as the youngest member of Hong …

Asean – The United Kingdom’s (UK) Minister of State for Asia on Monday expressed her country’s “serious” desire to grow its relationship with the Philippines and other countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean). In a video posted on Twitter, Amanda Milling said she spent the last three days in the Philippines and met with Cabinet secretaries and …

DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang challenged the Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Adham Baba to hit Malaysia’s Covid-19 vaccination target of 80 per cent of the entire population by September 16. According to the Iskandar Puteri MP, it has been his proposal to achieve the Malaysia Day target as the goal of the National Covid-19 Immunization Plan. Related PostsA Mass …

Surprisingly, The agents of Indonesia and the United Kingdom met in Jakarta on Tuesday to examine arrangements for one of the arrangements of occasions of the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow on Nov 1-12, 2021. At the gathering, agents of the two countries talked about arrangements to seat the Forest, Agriculture, and Commodity Trade …

After leaving formally European Union or Brexit, The United Kingdom will be a more open and welcoming country for Indonesia. That was told by the UK ambassador to Indonesia and Timor Leste Owen Jenkins on Friday (31/1/2020). The UK plans in place to attract more Indonesian students to study there and the possibility of a future cooperation in palm oil. …