The leak of the Zero Draft of Chairman’s Statement of 32nd ASEAN Summit provides a baseline to analyze the final ASEAN Chair’s Statement when it is issued on April 28 and determine the extent ...

KUALA LUMPUR, May 26 — Malaysia is again hosting the pivotal Asean Summit this year, leading as chairman amid global volatility fuelled by populist trade policies and the reemergence of ...

Asean's economic ministers completed talks with China on an upgraded free-trade deal last week, and have also agreed to work on reducing trade barriers between members of the bloc.

IN the face of an increasingly uncertain and unstable regional and global economic environment, it has become a shared consensus among many developing countries to seek certainty and enhance ...

U.S. President Joe Biden poses with other leaders during the 2022 ASEAN summit in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, November 12, 2022. Kevin Lamarque/Reuters President Biden's attendance marks an important ...

Malaysia's Minister for Investment, Trade and Industry Tengku Zafrul Abdul Aziz (left) at a press conference during the ASEAN Summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on May 25, 2025.

Biden's national security adviser Jake Sullivan said that the meetings—and Biden's talks with leaders on the sidelines of the summit—will focus on climate change, Russia's war in Ukraine and more.

Singaporean Prime Minister Lawrence Wong attends the retreat session of the 45th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit in Vientiane, Laos, Wednesday, Oct 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Dita ...

KUALA LUMPUR: Asean and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have the means and responsibility to rise as anchors of stability and engines for growth, says Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

SINGAPORE/KUALA LUMPUR -- Southeast Asian leaders are set to express "deep concern" over U.S. President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs at a summit next week, according to a draft statement seen ...

Anwar, whose country holds ASEAN's rotating chair this year, said in his opening remarks at a summit of the bloc in Kuala Lumpur that he reached out to Trump to "seek his understanding" to hold a ...

In his opening remarks at the summit, Malaysia’s Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim – this year’s Asean chair – said he had written to Trump “to seek his understanding to organise a US-Asean ...