The Ministry of Finance of Thailand has affirmed that a National E-Payment system will be up and running by January 1 of 2017. 

Jordan's King Abdullah appointed veteran politician Hani Mulqi as caretaker prime minister on May 29 after dissolving parliament as its four-year term nears its end, and charged him with organising new elections by October.

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim's government on May 29 won a vote of confidence in parliament as well as approval for his legislative program, parliament speaker Ismail Kahraman said.

At least 700 migrants may have died at sea this past week in the busiest week of migrant crossings from Libya towards Italy this year, Medecins San Frontieres and the UN Refugee agency said on May 29.

VOV.VN - Greece’s public debt crisis has seen positive developments when Eurogroup, a group of 19 finance ministers of the eurozone, reached an important agreement last week.

Thailand will loosen its grip on dissident politicians by lifting overseas travel ban faced by many of them, starting from June 1.

Servicemen from the US-led coalition are assisting Kurdish Peshmerga forces in a new offensive in Iraq that aims to retake a handful of villages from Islamic State east of their Mosul stronghold, a coalition spokesman said on May 29.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on May 28 he is planning to visit Laos in September to attend summits related to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). 

Turkish and US-led coalition airstrikes killed 104 Islamic State militants in retaliation for the latest attack on a Turkish border province, Turkish media reported on May 28, citing military sources.

Official sources in Myanmar announced on May 27 that the country’s Union Peace Dialogue Joint Committee (UPDJC) will be reformed with State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi heading this 18 member body.