Myanmar on May 31 formed a 10-member committee to work on reformation of the Myanmar Peace Center (MPC) as National Reconciliation and Peace Center (NRPC), announced the President's Office. 

The Group 7 (G7) industrialized nations recently issued a joint statement on maritime security, denouncing China’s reclamation of islands in the East Sea.

President-elect Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines named his Cabinet members on May 31, one day after the parliament proclaimed him as the winner in the May 9 elections.

British voters have moved toward voting to leave the European Union in next month's referendum according to two surveys by polling firm ICM, surprising investors and sending sterling sharply lower.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is expected to announce on June 1 that the government will delay a scheduled sales tax hike by two-and-a-half years, but will likely bow to pressure from his coalition partner not to call a snap general election.

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) attempted to fire a missile from its east coast on May 31 but the launch appears to have failed, the Republic of Korea (RoK)'s officials said, in what would be the latest in a string of unsuccessful ballistic missile tests by the isolated country.

Islamic State fighters halted an Iraqi army assault on the city of Falluja with a counter-attack at its southern gates on May 31, while the United Nations warned of peril for civilians trapped in the city and used by militants as human shields.

Indonesia is lagging behind other countries in economic development because of its own wrong policies, not because it lacks capability or potential, Vice President M. Jusuf Kalla said.

Prime Minister of Thailand Prayut Chan-o-cha declared on May 30 that he will continue the ban on politicians carrying out political activities. 

Thailand Post, which provides postal services in Thailand, is working with the Southern Border Provinces Administrative Center in establishing halal product distribution centers at various post offices across the country.