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Sri Lanka, Bangladesh eye RCEP membership: Four years after India's exit, neighbours consider joining 15-nation trading bloc. Sri Lanka has applied, Bangladesh to decide after elections. Joining RCEP would take them out of subcontinental trade, enable access to Asian economies. India's neighbours joining RCEP a "development of concern" for India.…

The urgency for Southeast Asian nations to switch to clean energy to combat climate change is breathing new life into a 20-year-old plan for the region to share power

The exercise focused on humanitarian relief as the regional grouping makes tentative steps towards military cooperation.

It is India’s policy ‘mantras’ of multilateralism, multipolarity and the “middle way” that won the day at the G-20 summit

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations has begun its first joint naval exercise at a time when several member countries are responding more strongly to increasing Chinese assertiveness in the area

The debate in New Zealand over whether to join “pillar two” of the AUKUS security partnership threatens to overshadow a more important foreign policy challenge: how the country’s allies in the Indo-Pacific region are responding to the war in Ukraine.

The 55-year-old ASEAN grouping that has managed to strive on the principles of centrality, non-interference and economic progress now faces the pressures and lures of geopolitics as both China and the U.S. are trying to exert their influence in the region

India needs to stay closely engaged with the ASEAN members both as a trade hedge against the slowdown in its main western markets and to highlight its significance as an all-weather ally

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has met with his Indonesian counterpart, Joko Widodo, to deepen economic ties and defense cooperation amid heightened global geopolitical tensions

Indonesia's president issued a stark warning Thursday after wrapping up a summit of Southeast Asian countries that was joined by China, the United States and Russia, saying “we will be destroyed” unless conflicts are resolved.