Migrants protested on a Greek island and rights groups raised legal objections on April 1 three days before a disputed EU deal to return rejected asylum seekers from Greece to Turkey was due to go into action, with neither side completely ready.

The 4th ASEAN Chief Justices’ Meeting issued a joint statement on April 1 at the end of the one day event in Ho Chi Minh City. 

Ambassador Nguyen Hoanh Nam, head of the Vietnamese mission to ASEAN, attended the 11th Coordinating Conference on the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community in Jakarta, Indonesia, from March 29-30.

VOV.VN - The 4th Nuclear Security Summit opened in Washington on March 31.

An overpass under construction in the bustling Indian city of Kolkata collapsed on March 31 on to vehicles and street vendors below, killing at least 14 people with more than 100 people feared trapped.

Greece and Turkey are rushing through changes to their asylum rules in a race to implement a EU-Turkey agreement on the return of refugees and migrants from Greek islands to Turkey from April 4, EU officials and diplomats said.

Myanmar's new government has appointed 29 regional ministers for ethnic affairs for 13 regions and states, according to an order of the President's Office released on March 31.

The ASEAN member countries and China have agreed to strengthen pragmatic law enforcement cooperation, to better cope with security challenges and set up a law enforcement college to train police. 

The second regional workshop on building a post-2015 Initiative for ASEAN Integration Work Plan (IAI) was held in Jakarta, Indonesia, on March 30.

The United States has told China it will not recognize an exclusion zone in the East Sea and would view such a move as "destabilizing," US Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work said on March 30.