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

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.

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,