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HONG KONG, China (AFP) – Hong Kong’s government reacted with fury on Monday after a popular democracy protest song was played instead of the Chinese national anthem for the city’s team at a rugby sevens tournament in South Korea. The city’s sports teams play the Chinese national anthem, but before Hong Kong took on South Korea in the final of the Asia Rugby Sevens Series in Incheon on Sunday, “Glory to Hong Kong” was played instead. […]
(COURTESY: EAC NEWS) PHNOM PENH: The President of the United States, Joe Biden, has announced that he has requested US $850 million in assistance for Southeast Asia for 2023. Prime Minister Hun Sen and President Joe Biden presided over the 10th ASEAN-US Summit held at the Sokha Hotel in Phnom Penh on Saturday, 12 November. During his opening remarks, President Biden said that he was happy to attend the third ASEAN-US Summit of his presidency, […]
Sat, Nov 12, 2022 10:17 AM H.E. Sergey Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, arrives at Phnom Penh International Airport this morning to attend the 17th East Asia Summit and Related Summits hosted by Cambodia. Photo: Kol Renny, Sous Savy & Lanh Visal – AKP
Arrival of U.S. President H.E. Joe Biden at Phnom Penh International Airport Sat, Nov 12, 2022 9:22 AM President of the United States of America H.E. Joe Biden disembarks from a special aircraft upon his arrival at Phnom Penh International Airport this morning to attend the 10th ASEAN-U.S. Summit and 17th East Asia Summit (EAS) in Phnom Penh capital city. Photo: Kol Renny, Sous Savy & Lanh Visal – AKP
Speaking on the sidelines of the ASEAN summit in Cambodia, Indonesian President Joko Widodo says the Southeast Asian bloc must not be ‘held hostage’ to the situation in Myanmar, which has been under military rule since a coup last year.
Phnom Penh, Cambodia | AFP | by Damon WAKE Southeast Asian leaders agreed Friday to engage Myanmar opposition groups as they seek ways to quell the country’s escalating bloodshed which has seen thousands killed in clashes since last year’s coup. The Myanmar crisis dominated the first day of a gathering of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) regional bloc in Phnom Penh that US President Joe Biden will join on Saturday. Myanmar has […]
Beijing, China | AFP | Xi Jinping will attend the G20 summit in Indonesia next week and meet his US counterpart Joe Biden, Beijing’s foreign ministry confirmed on Friday, in their first in-person talks since the Chinese president sealed a historic third term as leader last month. The two met prior to Biden taking office in January 2021 and have spoken by phone a number of times since then, but the Covid-19 pandemic and […]
Manila, Philippines | AFP | Seven people have been killed in fighting between the Philippine military and Muslim rebels in the country’s south, authorities said Thursday, in one of the deadliest clashes since a landmark peace pact was signed in 2014. The ongoing fighting broke out Tuesday in Basilan island province, off the main southern island of Mindanao, following what the military said was a “miscommunication” between its soldiers and members of the Moro Islamic […]
Beijing, China | AFP | by Laurie CHEN / Matthew WALSH China announced the relaxation of some of its hardline Covid-19 restrictions on Friday, after authorities had vowed to stick to a zero-tolerance virus approach despite mounting economic damage. The country is the last major economy welded to a strategy of stamping out virus flare-ups as they occur, through a combination of snap lockdowns, mass testing and lengthy quarantines. Top leaders had pledged to […]
Phnom Penh, Cambodia | AFP | Southeast Asian leaders agreed on Friday to allow East Timor to join the 10-nation ASEAN regional bloc, according to a statement released by summit host Cambodia. “We the leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations… agreed in principle to admit Timor-Leste to be the 11th member of ASEAN,” the statement said. East Timor is the youngest country in Southeast Asia, having gained independence from Indonesia in 2002 […]
Phnom Penh, Cambodia | AFP | by Damon WAKE The escalating crisis in Myanmar was set to dominate summit talks Friday between Southeast Asian leaders struggling to find a way to calm the bloodshed in the junta-ruled country. Leaders from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) regional bloc will discuss ways to implement a peace plan agreed with Myanmar last year which the junta has so far ignored. Myanmar has spiralled into bloody conflict […]
Phnom Penh, Cambodia | AFP | by Rose TROUP BUCHANAN World leaders attending a summit in Phnom Penh will receive Cambodian-made watches from host Hun Sen, a noted fan of luxury timepieces. The gift to VIPs at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and East Asian Summit gatherings has raised eyebrows in a country with no history of watchmaking. US President Joe Biden and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang are among the guests over three […]
