Tag: South China Sea

The Foreign Ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have issued a joint statement calling for an immediate halt to fighting in the Middle East and the full ...

UK, France and Germany have jointly expressed concern over China's recent maritime activities in waters east of Taiwan, warning that the operations risk undermining regional stability and threatening freedom of ...

Defence Chiefs from Japan and the Philippines have expressed renewed alarm over what they called China’s intensifying coercive actions in disputed waters. This came as Japanese Defence Minister Shinjiro Koizumi ...

Malaysian Prime Minister, Anwar Ibrahim has urged Asia-Pacific leaders to pursue dialogue and cooperation in the region. This came as he opened the East Asia summit at a time of ...

India and the Philippines have staged joint sail and naval exercises in the disputed South China Sea for the first time. Chief of staff of Armed Forces of the Philippines, ...

French President, Emmanuel Macron has called for closer cooperation between Vietnam and France. This came as he visited Hanoi as part of a Southeast Asia tour focused on strengthening regional ties. This ...

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has proposed removing a US missile system from his country if China ceases its “aggressive and coercive behavior” in the disputed South China Sea. The ...

US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken has expressed concern over China's "increasingly dangerous and unlawful" activities in the disputed South China Sea. Blinken, in his opening speech at the ASEAN ...

Top diplomats from Southeast Asia have met with China’s Foreign Minister, Wang Yi in Laos. Several members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have territorial disputes with China, ...

Chinese state-owned oil and gas giant CNOOC Ltd (0883.HK), has discovered a new reserve in the South China Sea containing over 100 million tons of oil equivalent proved in-place, the company ...