The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) supports efforts to maintain peace and stability in the Korean Peninsula, said ASEAN Secretary General Le Luong Minh.

The US is planning to conduct patrols near artificial islands illegally built by China in the East Sea, according to the New York Times.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) appreciates the United Nations’ role in and support for development activities in countries across the world, said the association’s representative. 

The Criminal Court of Thailand on October 12 issued an arrest warrant for former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra after he did not show up for the first hearing for a defamation case filed against him by the army. 

The Philippines’ election season began on October 12 with politicians registering for thousands of posts, reported the country’s media.

The prime minister of Iraqi Kurdistan removed four ministers from his cabinet on October 12 and the speaker of parliament was barred from entering the capital in an escalating political crisis that threatens to destabilize the region.

Turkey's government said on October 12 Islamic State was the prime suspect in suicide bombings that killed at least 97 people in Ankara, but opponents vented anger at President Tayyip Erdogan at funerals, universities and courthouses.

Turkey is targeting Islamic State in investigations of a double suicide bombing in Ankara that killed up to 128 people, officials said on October 11, while opponents of President Tayyip Erdogan blamed him for the worst such attack in Turkish history.

Eight senior figures from Islamic State were killed in an air strike while meeting in a town in western Iraq, but the group's reclusive leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi did not appear to be among them, residents of the town and hospital sources said.

The US will establish a regional centre in Malaysia’s capital Kuala Lumpur to fight the Islamic State (IS) group’s extremist online propaganda.