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Ministers meeting in Phnom Penh from Wednesday are expected to lament the lack of progress made by the regime on the bloc’s Five-Point Consensus.

Ministers meeting in Phnom Penh from Wednesday are expected to lament the lack of progress on ASEAN's "five-point consensus" plan, agreed to in April last year, which called for an immediate end to violence and dialogue between the junta and coup opponents.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is scheduled to meet with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and the latter’s foreign affairs chief during his visit to Manila from August 5 to 6

(Blinken photo from Xinhua) MANILA - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is scheduled to meet with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and the latter's foreign affairs chief during his visit to Manila from August 5 to 6. The US Embassy in Manila said Friday Blinken's meeting with Marcos and Foreign Affairs Secretary Enrique Manalo would cover "bilateral efforts" to strengthen the two nations' alliance. In his meeting with Manalo, discussions would focus on sustaining the "...

China again slammed the United States for trying to “stir up trouble and drive a wedge” between countries using the South China Sea dispute for its own political gain. 

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will not exclude Russia in its upcoming Foreign Ministers' Meeting (AMM) as the regional bloc intends to provide a platform for discussion among conflicting and warring parties. This was according to Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) ASEAN Affai

The Philippines and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have put in place measures to ensure unimpeded supply of basic needs amid the Covid-19 pandemic and the ongoing Ukraine-Russia crisis. Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA)-Office of ASEAN Affairs Assistant Secretary Dani

The Philippines, its fellow Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), and China have begun to tackle several details regarding the future Code of Conduct in the South China Sea, an official of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said Thursday, July 28. DFA-ASEAN Affairs Asec. Daniel Es

Foreign Affairs Secretary Enrique Manalo will assert the 2016 arbitration ruling as the anchor of the Marcos administration’s guiding principle on the South China Sea disputes at an annual regional meeting in Cambodia next week.

RESPONSE TO BIOLOGICAL INCIDENTS. Participants of the Asean Regional Forum Tabletop Exercise discuss their roles and responses during a biological incident on Monday (June 13, 2022). The event is hosted by the Department of Foreign Affairs in Pasay City. (PNA photo by Joyce Rocamora) MANILA - The Philippine government is hosting the Asean Regional Forum (ARF) exercise on responding to chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) events, with a special focus on biological incidents. &quo...