This photo taken on Jan 19 2025 shows a scene of a press conference after the Association of Southeast Asian Nat

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Southeast Asian foreign ministers hold a closed-doors retreat in Malaysia on Sunday, as the country hosts its first meeting as chair of the regional bloc ASEAN amid an intensifying civil war in Myanmar and confrontations in the South China Sea.

LANGKAWI, Jan 19 (Bernama) -- Malaysia’s Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Mohamad Hasan held three bilateral meetings on Sunday with his counterparts from Vietnam, Singapore and Indonesia to foster deeper cooperation and strengthen bilateral relations.

Malaysia's has appointed diplomat Othman Hashim as the Southeast Asian bloc ASEAN's special envoy on the crisis in army-ruled Myanmar, its foreign minister said on Sunday.

The two-day Asean Foreign Ministers’ Retreat (AMM), which commenced today, marked the debut of Malaysia’s national flagship electric vehicle (EV),

Malaysia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Datuk Seri Mohamad Hasan is set to chair the ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Retreat (AMM Retreat) on Sunday (Jan 19) in Langkawi, Kedah. The AMM Retreat is the first scheduled meeting in the annual ASEAN calendar at the ministerial level under Malaysia’s ASEAN Chairmanship for 2025.

LANGKAWI: Singapore’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Vivian Balakrishnan will attend the ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Retreat in Langkawi from Jan 18 to Jan 19. Dr Balakrishnan is attending at the invitation of his Malaysian counterpart Mohamad Hasan,

Malaysia's Foreign Minister Mohamad Hasan, left, waves to members of the media after the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Foreign Ministers' Retreat in Langkawi Island, Malaysia, Sunday,

This photo taken on Jan. 19, 2025 shows a scene of a press conference after the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) foreign ministers' meeting in Langkawi, Malaysia. The meeting was held here on Sunday. (Xinhua/Cheng Yiheng)

The bloc says that any poll must be “inclusive,” but it has limited power to deter the junta from its election plans.

Standing at a new starting point, ASEAN is now in a better position to understand that it has no reason not to keep good relations with its neighbors, including China, and that no external forces should be allowed to assume the center of the stage in Southeast Asia except the regional countries themselves.