ASEAN

  • Cambodia records over 2.5 million air passengers in first 5 months – aviation minister

    Cambodia reported more than 2.5 million air travelers during the first five months of 2024, a year-on-year increase of 22 percent, Mao Havannall, minister in charge of the State Secretariat of Civil Aviation, said on Sunday. Thirty-one international and domestic airlines have operated flights to the kingdom’s three international airports, he said. Havannall added that…

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  • Indonesia said Saturday that Southeast Asia will not become a “pawn of rivalries” as it emphasized reinforcing regional cooperation. “Instead, South East Asia must be an epicenter of growth, where all countries can benefit meaningfully,” Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi told the 78th session of the UN General Assembly in New York. “Regional institutions should be…

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  • The 16th Conference of Asean Ministers Responsible for Information (AMRI) and related meetings which ended today has endorsed the Guidelines on Management of Government Information in Combatting Fake News and Disinformation in the Media. According to a joint media statement released at the end of 16th AMRI, it said the guidelines initiated by Indonesia sought…

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  • The leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) agreed Tuesday on a new mechanism to tackle unrest in Myanmar comprised of current, past and future chairs of the regional grouping. A statement on the first day of the three-day ASEAN Summit in Jakarta said the 10-member group agreed to form a troika to…

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  • Indonesia’s third largest city has just won the title of ASEAN Environmentally Sustainable City. The use of nuclear techniques to monitor air pollution have contributed to the achievement, city officials have said. (Infographic: F. Nassif/IAEA) The award is an annual prize that was handed out for the fourth time last month by officials from across…

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  • A group of three men holding Turkish passports in Thailand were allegedly plotting to attack Chinese interests in the ASEAN region. Police in Thailand confirmed it has put two of them on its security watch list after receiving an alert from Singapore.

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