The body of Thailand ’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej was moved from Bangkok’s Siriraj Hospital to the Grand Palace on October 14 where his funeral rites will be carried out.

Scotland may try to wrest control over migration as part of a new enhanced devolution deal once Britain leaves the European Union, Scotland's minister for EU negotiations said on October 14.

Haiti will hold the first round of its serially delayed presidential election on Nov. 20 to give time for people in areas of the country affected by Hurricane Matthew to recover enough to vote, the electoral council said on October 14.

They say they have not been paid for two months, have had their electricity cut and are sometimes banned from flights - and the laws they pass are blocked anyway.

US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will return to Syria talks on October 15, three weeks after the failure of their painstakingly drafted ceasefire that many saw as the last hope for peace this year.

Malaysia's Conference of Rulers elected Sultan of Kelantan Muhammad V as the 15th King of Malaysia on October 14. 

President of the King’s Privy Council of Thailand Prem Tinsulanonda will assume regency over the country’s empty throne as Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn delays formally taking the throne.

The 21st ASEAN-EU Ministerial Meeting (AEMM) opened in Bangkok, Thailand on October 14, seeking to strengthen the two sides’ cooperation across the board and work towards strategic partnership.

The US military launched cruise missile strikes on October 13 to knock out three coastal radar sites in areas of Yemen controlled by Iran-aligned Houthi forces, retaliating after failed missile attacks this week on a US Navy destroyer, U.S. officials said.

VOV.VN - The US removed economic sanctions that have been imposed on Myanmar for 2 decades. This is a milestone in the normalization of relations between the two countries.

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad said on October 14 that the Syrian army's capture of Aleppo, which has come under renewed bombardment in an effort to seize its rebel-held sector, would be "a very important springboard" to pushing "terrorists" back to Turkey.

Thailand’s King Bhumibol Abdulyadej, the world’s longest-reigning monarch, passed away at 3.52 pm on October 13, at the age of 88.

The Myanmar government’s troops announced on October 13 that 10 more gunmen were killed in a fighting with the government troops in Maungtaw town, Rakhine state. 

Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Cambodia on October 13 for a two-day state visit to the Southeast Asian nation with the aim of further solidifying the traditional friendship and deepening the comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership between the two countries.

Australia and Singapore on October 13 signed four Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) under the bilateral comprehensive strategic partnership agreement in defence, trade, science and technology reform, and drug trafficking prevention.

The Malaysian Conference of Rulers will hold a special meeting to elect the country’s 15th King on October 14. 

A workshop to bolster cooperation between ASEAN countries and the port city of Madryn, Chubut province, Argentina was held in Buenos Aires on October 12. 

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said that he will keep in place existing agreements and military alliance with the US despite his plans to end all future joint military exercises with the long-standing ally. 

US Secretary of State John Kerry will meet his Russian counterpart in Switzerland on October 15 to discuss Syria, officials said on October 12, as a devastating bombing campaign of the city of Aleppo intensified.

Heavy air strikes on rebel-held areas in the Syrian city of Aleppo killed 25 people on October 12, most of them at a market, a rescue service said, as the Syrian government and Russia pursued their joint offensive to capture the whole city.

Islamic State on October 12 claimed responsibility for a mass shooting that killed at least 18 worshippers at a shrine in the Afghan capital, raising fears of sectarian violence after a string of attacks on the country's Shi'ite minority.

A blaze ripped through a group of fireworks shops in the Philippines on October 12, leaving two people dead and 24 others injured. 

VOV.VN - Russia and Turkey have signed an agreement on the construction of an undersea gas pipeline.

Migrants arriving by sea to Italy are now the main problem faced by the European Union in its efforts to stem mass immigration to the bloc, the head of the EU border agency said on October 12.

The Thai Ministry of Commerce has held a meeting in Cambodia’s Battambang province to promote border trade between the two countries. 

Key members of Thailand’s royal family were present at Siriraj Hospital, where King Bhumibol Abdulyadej is under treatment, on October 12 amid news on the monarch’s unstable health condition. 

Key members of the Thai Royal family , on October 12, gathered at Siriraj Hospital in Bankok where King Bhumibol Abdulyadej is receiving treatment, to pray for him. 

New Zealand Defence Minister Gerry Brownlee expressed his support to arbitral process at the seventh Xiangshan Forum in Beijing on October 11, saying that the reclamation, construction and militarisation in the East Sea is to blame for escalating tension.

Thailand’s National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) confirmed security alerts in Bangkok and ordered to set up checkpoints and conducted searches on October 11. 

Russian jets resumed heavy bombing of rebel-held eastern Aleppo on October 11 after several days of relative calm, a rebel official and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said.