VOV.VN -The 49th founding anniversary of ASEAN was celebrated on August 4 by the ASEAN Pretoria Committee (APC) in Pretoria, South Africa, draw the participation of ambassadors fromVietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore and Thailand. 

Supporters of Republican Donald Trump urged him to get back on message on August 4 after a week of dropping opinion poll numbers and a war of words with ranking Republicans over his U.S. presidential campaign.

VOV.VN - Since repelling a coup attempt on July 15, the Turkish government has concentrated on stabilizing the nation.

A Syrian group said on August 4 it had the bodies of five people shot down in a Russian helicopter and demanded the release of prisoners in exchange for the corpses.

The United States is evaluating new documents sent by Turkey to push for the extradition of US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, the alleged mastermind of the country's recent failed coup, a State Department spokesman said on August 4.

China and Laos have enjoyed sound cooperation over the past five decades of diplomatic relations, said Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi during talks with his visiting Lao counterpart Saleumxay Kommasith on August 3.

The Thai Government will deploy about 200,000 police in order to ensure security for a referendum on a new draft constitution slated for August 7.

Economic ministers and deputy ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) mulled several important matters during the 48th ASEAN Economic Ministers’ Meeting that began in Vientiane, Laos on August 3.

One woman was killed and five other people were injured by a man with a knife in central London in an attack which police said could be linked to terrorism.

VOV.VN - The 48th ASEAN Economic Ministers’ Meeting opened on August 3 in Vientiane, Laos, the first since the establishment of the ASEAN Economic Community. 

Turkey will soon complete an overhaul of its intelligence agency and make new appointments to its gendarmerie as it tries to rid its security apparatus of the followers of a US-based cleric blamed for an attempted coup, officials said on August 3.

Tunisia's President Beji Caid Essebsi named a little-known technocrat as prime minister on August 3 after parliament ousted Habib Essid in a vote of no-confidence over his handling of economic reforms and security.

A deal between the European Union and Turkey to stem a flow of migrants has largely held, though Athens is watching with concern events unfolding in Turkey, where an attempted coup was put down last month, Greece's migration minister told the German newspaper Bild.

US Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, hit back on August 3 at suggestions that a United States decision to deploy an advanced anti-missile defense system in the Republic of Korea (RoK) had provoked recent ballistic missile tests by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).

The 48th ASEAN Economic Ministers’ Meeting (AEM 48) and related meetings kicked off in Vientiane, Laos on August 3, focusing on economic cooperation among the 10 member countries as well as between the group and its partners. 

Singapore will send a medical support team to Iraq as its contribution towards global efforts to defeat the Islamic State (IS), said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on August 2. 

A letter entitled “IS threat” was sent to a police station in Negri Sembilan state, Malaysia on August 2, claiming that the Islamic State (IS) extremist group is targeting several top leaders. 

Malaysia has assumed the presidency of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for August. 

Foreign direct investment (FDI) in Thailand has fallen by 90 percent in the first half of 2016 to the lowest level in the past ten years, according to the Bank of Thailand (BOT). 

Malaysians on average spent 70% of their income on food, housing, necessities and travel, according to the Malaysian Minister of Finance Johari Abdul Ghani.

Hungary's foreign minister said on August 2 he thought it "unrealistic" that Russia would attack any NATO member, a view that contrasts with some other NATO member countries in the region who see Moscow as a real threat.

President Barack Obama and Singapore's prime minister on August 2 made sales pitches for a Pacific Rim trade deal that both U.S. presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have derided and that has been stalled in Congress.

VOV.VN - The UN-brokered peace talks in Yemen are at risk of failing. Yemen’s Houthi rebels have rejected a new UN proposal to continue talks and demand for a unity administration.

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) fired a ballistic missile on August 3 from its western region into the sea off its east coast, the Republic of Korea (RoK)'s military said, the latest in a series of launches in defiance of UN Security Council resolutions.

Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak and Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo have instructed their special envoys tasked with resolving overlapping maritime claims to intensify efforts, with each being given a fresh mandate to resolve the delimitation issue. 

Nineteen leaders of the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD ), also known as the red shirts, were accused of violating the ban on public gatherings. 

Thailand has ramped up campaigns to encourage voting in the upcoming referendum on the new draft constitution on August 7.

US President Barack Obama has acknowledged that the Philippines made a lawful and peaceful effort to resolve their maritime dispute with China using The Hague tribunal.

Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has urged US businesses to voice their support to persuade the US Congress to ratify the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement.

A Russian military helicopter was shot down in Syria's rebel-held Idlib province on August 1 killing all five people on board, in the biggest officially acknowledged loss of life for Russian forces since they started operations in Syria.