Malaysian Defence Minister Hishammuddin Hussein on June 4 urged ASEAN claimants to the East Sea to first resolve their differences in regional maritime disputes.

Japan and Britain agreed on June 5 to launch talks between their senior defence officials on programmes aimed at helping the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) members upgrade their maritime capabilities.

VOV.VN - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has decided to delay sales tax increase until 2019 for the 2nd time in the context of Japan’s economy struggling to recover.

Ambassadors from ASEAN member countries were brought together at a workshop in Cairo on June 4 to exchange economic and investment cooperation with Egypt. 

Nearly 50 air strikes hit rebel-held areas in and around the Syrian city of Aleppo on June 5 in some of the heaviest recent raids by Russian and Syrian government aircraft, residents and a monitoring group said.

A veteran American photojournalist and a translator working for NPR were killed while accompanying Afghan troops in southern Afghanistan on June 5, NPR and military officials said.

US Secretary of State John Kerry said on June 5 the United States would consider any Chinese establishment of an air defense zone over the South China Sea to be a "provocative and destabilizing act".

Hillary Clinton fought on two fronts in California on June 4 as she sought to wrap up her battle with Bernie Sanders for the Democratic nomination, taking aim at him and at Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, with attacks on their immigration stances.

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and his Malaysian counterpart Najib Razak have agreed to tighten the two countries’ political connectivity through all-level visits.

Chinese President Xi Jinping received Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni in Beijing on June 3, during which they agreed to further consolidate the two countries’ traditional friendship. 

ASEAN and New Zealand sought measures to step up their cooperation at the fourth meeting of their Joint Cooperation Committee which took place at the headquarters of the ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta, Indonesia on June 3. 

Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha called on ASEAN to promote its role in building security balance in the region while the opening the 15th Shangri-La Dialogue on June 3 in Singapore. 

VOV.VN - The 15th ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community Council meeting opened on June 6 in Luang Prabang, Laos, discussing  priorities of the Community in 2016, the master plan of the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community until 2025 and related issues.

US Defense Secretary Ash Carter urged China on June 4 to join a "principled security network" for Asia, saying that the United States would remain the world's most powerful military and the main guarantor of regional security for decades to come.

At least 16 people in Texas, including four soldiers who went missing when their vehicle overturned in flood waters, have died due to torrential rains in the past week that have deluged hundreds of homes and led to prison evacuations, officials said on June 3.

Presumptive Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump on June 3 denounced protesters in California as "thugs" a day after another demonstration outside one of his political rallies turned violent ahead of the state's presidential primary.

A Cambodian court on June 2 issued a warrant ordering deputy opposition leader and lawmaker Kem Sokha to present himself in the court on June 14 for questioning over a case of "refusal to appear". 

President Barack Obama has urged the US Congress to approve the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).

VOV.VN - The UN Human Rights Council announced on June 1 that at least 700 migrants died and many more went missing in the Mediterranean over the past few days. Meanwhile, the EU is still seeking a solution to the migrant crisis.

Britain's main opposition leader, Jeremy Corbyn, appealed to leftist voters on June 2 to back "In" at a referendum on EU membership this month, defending immigration and rejecting criticism that he is not campaigning hard enough.

The United States has approved 4,700 Syrian refugees who are awaiting resettlement to the country.

A suicide bomber detonated explosives near a mosque in the Syrian coastal city of Latakia on June 2, killing and wounding several people, a monitoring group and state media reported.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon slammed the Saudi Arabia-led coalition fighting in Yemen for killing and maiming children by adding it to an annual blacklist of states and armed groups that violate children's rights during conflict.

Cambodia on June 2 defended its court for taking legal action against Vice President of the CNRP (Cambodia National Rescue Party) Kem Sokha, who was charged with "refusal to appear" in court over a case involving his alleged mistress.

The Supreme Court of Thailand on June 2 sentenced redshirt leader Jatuporn Prompan to six months in jail and a fine of 50,000 THB (roughly US$1,400) for defaming former Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejajiva in January 2009. 

The second meeting of the ASEAN Connectivity Coordinating Committee (ACCC) in 2016 and related meetings took place in Manado, Indonesia on May 29-30 with Permanent Representative of Vietnam to ASEAN Nguyen Hoanh Nam in attendance.

VOV.VN - The month-long European football championship (Euro 2016) will begin on June 10 in Paris, France. Security has been tightened against a possible terrorist attack.

The Australia-ASEAN Council has unveiled a new international partnership programme that connects Australian schools with those across Southeast Asia. 

A murder-suicide killed two people at the University of California, Los Angeles on June 1, shutting down the campus for two hours as officers in camouflage and tactical gear responded to reports of a shooting.

Islamic State insurgents faced major assaults on two fronts in both Iraq and Syria on June 1 in what could prove to be some of the biggest operations to roll back their caliphate since they proclaimed it in 2014.