Malaysian Defence Minister Hishammuddin Hussein on June 4 urged ASEAN claimants to the East Sea to first resolve their differences in regional maritime disputes.

Japan and Britain agreed on June 5 to launch talks between their senior defence officials on programmes aimed at helping the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) members upgrade their maritime capabilities.

VOV.VN - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has decided to delay sales tax increase until 2019 for the 2nd time in the context of Japan’s economy struggling to recover.

Ambassadors from ASEAN member countries were brought together at a workshop in Cairo on June 4 to exchange economic and investment cooperation with Egypt. 

Nearly 50 air strikes hit rebel-held areas in and around the Syrian city of Aleppo on June 5 in some of the heaviest recent raids by Russian and Syrian government aircraft, residents and a monitoring group said.

A veteran American photojournalist and a translator working for NPR were killed while accompanying Afghan troops in southern Afghanistan on June 5, NPR and military officials said.

US Secretary of State John Kerry said on June 5 the United States would consider any Chinese establishment of an air defense zone over the South China Sea to be a "provocative and destabilizing act".

Hillary Clinton fought on two fronts in California on June 4 as she sought to wrap up her battle with Bernie Sanders for the Democratic nomination, taking aim at him and at Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, with attacks on their immigration stances.

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and his Malaysian counterpart Najib Razak have agreed to tighten the two countries’ political connectivity through all-level visits.

Chinese President Xi Jinping received Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni in Beijing on June 3, during which they agreed to further consolidate the two countries’ traditional friendship.