Known as the "Five Point Consensus", the ASEAN-led peace effort for Myanmar has made scant progress since its unveiling in April 2021, just months after the country's military staged a coup and unseated the elected government.

Myanmar will send a representative to a regional summit this week for the first time in three years, a diplomatic source told AFP Tuesday, as the junta struggles to quell a civil war.

The past year has seen significant changes in the dynamics of the country’s conflict. Will ASEAN’s approach shift accordingly?

President Ferdinand “Bongbong” R. Marcos Jr. and First Lady Liza Araneta-Marcos arrived at the Wattay International Airport for the 44th and 45th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) Summits and Related Summits in Vientiane,

President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. departed for Vientiane, Laos on Tuesday afternoon to attend the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit, where he is expected to highlight the country’s position on key regional and global issues,

For the first time since the junta seized power three years ago, Myanmar will send a Foreign Ministry official to the summit. But that move has drawn criticism from some human rights groups, NGOs and opponents of the junta inside the country,