Myanmar’s authorities have tightened security in the western state of Rakhine following attacks on border posts that killing nine policemen and leaving five wounded and one missing. 

Cambodian opposition lawmaker Um Sam An was sentenced to two and a half years in prison at a trial in Phnom Penh on October 10 for posting a fake Cambodia-Vietnam border map on his Facebook page.

VOV.VN - The UN Security Council has elected Portugal’s former Prime Minister Antonio Guterres as the next UN Secretary General from January 1, 2017 to replace Ban Ki-moon.

India and Indonesia started their second maritime exercise and joint patrol in Andaman Sea on October 10.

Singapore and Indonesia have agreed to enhance cooperation on transnational security issues, said the Singaporean Ministry of Defense in a statement on October 10.

Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong officially announced Singapore’s national strategy on cyber security on October 10 while attending the opening ceremony of the International Cyber security Week held for the first time in the Southeast Asian country. 

Connectivity is key to promoting cooperation among Asian nations, and the countries needs to further foster links to deal with common challenges, said Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam. 

Malaysian police said on October 9 that they have arrested 16 people for suspected links to militant groups, including the Islamic State (IS), after a two-week operation across the country.

A defiant Donald Trump on October 9 dismissed as "locker room talk" a controversy over a video in which he made obscene comments about groping women and said, if he won the White House, he would put Hillary Clinton in jail for operating a private email server while US secretary of state.

An air strike on a funeral gathering on October 9, widely blamed on Saudi-led warplanes, poses more trouble for a Western-backed Arab campaign against Yemen's Houthis that has long been criticized for civilian losses.