President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Tuesday arrived here to participate in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) Summit, where he is expected to highlight the country's position on key regional and global issues,

Myanmar’s shadow government, the National Unity Government (NUG), has called for the junta's exclusion from ASEAN meetings and praised the creation of a group of three countries, consisting of Indonesia, which chaired the bloc last year, Laos and Malaysia, to address the crisis.

The 2024 gathering comes after increasing tensions in the Middle East and the South China Sea. Read more at straitstimes.com.