Canada and the Philippines, both staunch critics of China’s increasingly coercive actions in the disputed South China Sea, ...

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Saturday urged Southeast Asian nations to stand firm and strengthen their maritime forces to counter China’s increasingly “destabilizing” actions in the South ...

The agreement would allow their forces to hold joint battle-readiness drills and expand a web of security alliances to deter ...

A Mindanao lawmaker on Saturday called on ASEAN member-states and China to support the completion of the Code of Conduct (COC ...

The Philippines will assume the chairmanship of what is now the 11-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and ...

At the close of this year’s ASEAN summit in Kuala Lumpur, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. officially accepted the bloc’s chairmanship from Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim — a symbolic handover ...

The Philippines will once again take centerstage in the international arena as it assumes the ASEAN chairmanship next year. This marks not only a ceremonial milestone, but also an important strategic ...

KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama-PNA): The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) is not sending an observer to the Myanmar elections in December, Philippine President Ferdinand R Marcos Jr has confirmed ...

THE Philippines is ready for Asean 2026” was the headline message of Department of Budget and Management (DBM) Secretary Amenah Pangandaman, who led the panel, titled “A Moment to Lead: Asean 2026 and ...

At the ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting, Malaysian Defence Minister Mohamed Khaled Nordin formally handed over the chairmanship to the Philippines’ Defence Minister, Gilberto Teodoro Jr., during the ...