The Society for Indian Ocean Studies (SIOS) held a workshop in New Delhi on October 3 to seek a legal and political solution to the complicated situation in the East Sea.

VOV.VN - The ASEAN-US Defense Ministers’ Informal Meeting held last week in Hawaii agreed on a number of solutions to strengthen bilateral security cooperation in the near future.

Pockets of Taliban fighters held out overnight against Afghan government forces in the northern city of Kunduz, a police official said on October 4, a day after the militants pushed deep into the city center.

VOV.VN - Vietnam now has nearly 300 industrial zones that employ about 2.8 million workers.

The United States broke off talks with Russia on October 3 on implementing a ceasefire agreement in Syria and accused Moscow of not living up to its commitments under the Sept. 9 deal to halt fighting and ensure aid reached besieged communities.

A bomb killed at least 20 people at a Kurdish wedding in the northeast Syrian city of Hasaka on October 3, a Kurdish militia and a monitoring group said, while state media said the casualties had risen to at least 30 dead.

More than 50 people were killed in a stampede in Ethiopia's Oromiya region that was triggered when police used teargas and shot in the air on October 2 to disperse anti-government protesters at a religious festival.

Syrian government and allied forces have advanced toward Aleppo, pursuing their week-old offensive to take the rebel-held part of the city after dozens of overnight air strikes.

Almost all Hungarians who voted in October 2's referendum rejected the European Union's migrant quotas but turnout was too low to make the poll valid, frustrating Prime Minister Viktor Orban's hopes of a clear victory with which to challenge Brussels.

Colombians narrowly rejected a peace deal with Marxist guerrillas in a referendum on October 2, plunging the nation into uncertainty and dashing President Juan Manuel Santos' painstakingly negotiated plan to end the 52-year war.

The Abu Sayyaf armed group has released three Indonesian hostages detained in the Philippines ’s southern Sulu province, a senior official of the Philippine Government said on October 2.

Iran has kept to a nuclear deal it agreed with six world powers last year limiting its stockpiles of substances that could be used to make atomic weapons, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) told French daily Le Monde.

Russian warplanes and their Syrian government allies battered rebel-held areas in and around Aleppo on October 1, and rebels and aid workers accused them of destroying one of the city's main hospitals and killing at least two patients.

French police fired tear gas and water cannon at migrants and protesters who gathered in defiance of a ban on October 1 outside the shanty town near Calais known as "the Jungle", local authorities said.

US Secretary of Defence Ashton Carter reasserted the US’s “rebalance” to the Asia-Pacific region will continue in the next US administration while chairing an informal meeting of ASEAN and US defence ministers in Hawaii on September 30. 

The East Sea once again took the theme of an international workshop that was held at the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra where experts looked into a number of issues regarding this important sea. 

German Chancellor Angela Merkel insisted on October 1 that she had not reversed course on her policy on migrants, two weeks after she said she wished she could turn back the clock to better prepare Germany for last year's influx.

Russia is sending more warplanes to Syria to ramp up its air campaign, a Russian newspaper reported on September 30 as the United States said diplomacy to halt the violence was "on life support" but not dead yet.

A summit of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) leaders set for Islamabad in November has been postponed indefinitely, the Pakistani government said on September 30, amid rising tension between arch-rivals India and Pakistan.

The 37th General Assembly of the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA-37) was opened in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar on September 30. 

Indonesian President Joko Widodo has emphasised the country’s potential for developing electronic commerce at a recent cabinet meeting in Jakarta. 

Malaysian lawyer Darryl Goon on September 29 stated that Malaysia might ask the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate and try those responsible for the downing of Malaysia Airlines’ flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine two years ago. 

The United States is close to suspending talks with Russia on a ceasefire in Syria, US Secretary of State John Kerry said on September 29, as the Kremlin vowed to press on with an assault on the city of Aleppo.

VOV.VN - President Barack Obama on September 27 nominated Jeffrey DeLaurentis, top official at the US Embassy in Havana since relations were restored in late 2014, to be the first US ambassador to Cuba in 55 years.

A commuter train plowed into a station in New Jersey at the height of September 29's morning rush hour, killing one person on the platform and injuring more than 100 as it brought down part of the roof and scattered debris over the concourse.

Violence recurred in southern Thailand when gunmen attacked a primary school in Narathiwat province, killing one person and injuring two others, Thai police said on September 29. 

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement and the East Sea issue were key topics discussed during a meeting between Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Singaporean counterpart Lee Hsien Loong in Tokyo on September 28. 

The Filipino government is eyeing to increase its revenue to 4.68 trillion PHP (US$97 billion), or 18.1% of the country's gross domestic product by 2022, the end of the six-year term of President Rodrigo Duterte. 

Russian or Syrian warplanes knocked two hospitals out of service in the besieged rebel sector of Aleppo on September 28 and ground forces intensified an assault in a battle which the United Nations said had made the city worse than a slaughterhouse. 

The United States will send around 600 new troops to Iraq to assist local forces in the battle to retake Mosul from Islamic State that is expected later this year, US and Iraqi officials said on September 28.