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Ukraine Foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba tells Southeast Asian leaders ‘the worst thing that a country can do is nothing’.

Japanese Prime Minister told Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Saturday he hoped the two countries could strive toward building a "constructive and stable" relationship, Japan's foreign ministry said on Saturday.

Southeast Asian heads of government held talks on Saturday with visiting global leaders including U.S. President Joe Biden, who hailed the launch of a new U.S.-ASEAN pact as a critical step towards tackling "the biggest issues of our time".

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol said on Saturday he hopes for the early activation of a mechanism for trilateral cooperation with China, Japan, Yonhap news agency reported.

On Friday, leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)’s member states provided a statement announcing “in-principle” support for Timor-Leste to be admitted as its 11th member. So does this mean Timor-Leste’s long wait to become a member of ASEAN is finally over? The short answer is not quite.

It was as a budding diplomat in the 1970s that Jose Ramos-Horta, a man who would go on to win the Nobel prize for his fight for East Timor's independence, first raised the idea of his country joining Southeast Asia's economic and political bloc.

PHNOM PENH: Southeast Asian heads of government were due to hold talks on Saturday with visiting global leaders, including United States President Joe Biden, as the region tries to navigate the growing rivalry between China and Western powers.

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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — President Joe Biden will confront some of the world's toughest foreign policy challenges as he returns to Asia on Saturday in the hopes of convincing the region's leaders to join U.S. efforts to counter the rise of China.