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 Asean countries are meeting in Laos for a two-day summit beginning Tuesday in Laos. It comes as the 10-member group faces a stern test amid intensifying war in Myanmar and rising tension in the So

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and a high-ranking delegation of Vietnam arrived at Wattay International Airport in Vientiane on October 8, beginning his trip to Laos to attend the 44th and 45th ASEAN Summits and Related Summits.

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.

Southeast Asian leaders will meet in Laos this week as Myanmar's civil war and mounting tensions in the South China Sea risk corroding the ASEAN grouping's central role in the region. The 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has,

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and a high-ranking delegation of Vietnam left Hanoi on October 8 morning for the 44th and 45th ASEAN Summits and Related Summits that will take place in Laos from the day to October 11.

Thailand's Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra said on Monday the regional bloc ASEAN must play a key role in ending the protracted civil war in Myanmar, ahead of a summit of the leaders of the 10-member group in Laos this week.