A suicide bomber killed four people on March 19 in a busy shopping district in the heart of Istanbul, pushing the death toll from four separate suicide attacks in Turkey this year to more than 80.

Cambodian Defence Minister General Tea Banh will arrive in Bangkok to meet his Thai counterpart Prawit Wongsuwan to discuss continued cooperation along the border, the Cambodian Defence Ministry said in a statement on March 19.

The East Sea issue was one of the main topics discussed at an international conference held in New Delhi, India on March 18.

All 62 people aboard a passenger jet flying from Dubai to southern Russia were killed when their plane crashed on its second attempt to land at Rostov-on-Don airport on March 19, Russian officials said.

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) fired two ballistic missiles on March 18, one of which flew about 800 km (500 miles) while the other exploded shortly after launch, US officials said, as the isolated state stepped up its defiance of tough new UN and US sanctions.

Europe's most wanted man was captured after a shootout in Brussels in a major coup for authorities investigating November's Islamic State attacks on Paris.

A Boeing (BA.N) 738 passenger jet crashed as it was landing at the Rostov-on-Don airport in southern Russia, CNN reported on March 19, citing Russia's Southern Regional Emergency Center.

The trilateral air exercise among Singapore, Thailand and the US named “Cope Tiger” concluded at Korat Air Base in Thailand, said Singapore’s Ministry of Defence (MINDEF) on March 18.

The 18th ASEAN-India Senior Officials’ Meeting (SOM) took place in Hanoi on March 17-18.

The Republic of Korea’s Korea Times published a series of articles on sovereignty of the Hoang Sa (Paracels) and Truong Sa (Spratlys) archipelagoes from the perspective of international law  on March 14 and 17.