LEADERS of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations or ASEAN and United States president Barack Obama will jointly endorse guidelines to enhance cooperation in the first stand-alone U.S.-ASEAN Summit in Sunnylands, California next week. The result of the summit will be issued in cooperation guidelines, called the Sunnylands principles, to be endorsed by President Obama and ten ASEAN leaders. In November last year, Obama invited ASEAN leaders to the special talk after ASEAN elevated relations […]
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PHL top diplomat resigns
FOREIGN Affairs Secretary Albert Del Rosario has resigned effective March 7, and President Benigno S. Aquino III has accepted it. Malacañang confirmed yesterday Del Rosario’s resignation but did not cite a reason. Two senior diplomats, however, said the secretary has been suffering from a heart ailment. Del Rosario took a month-long leave last year to undergo back surgery in the United States, but he returned to work immediately. The country’s top diplomat was the one […]





