VOV.VN - Japan’s new security law has come into force after being ratified 6 months ago.

President Bashar al-Assad said it would not be difficult to agree on a new Syrian government including opposition figures, but his opponents responded on March 30 that no administration would be legitimate while he remained in office.

President Barack Obama will have the chance to decide on whether to increase the number of US forces in Iraq in the "coming weeks," the top US general said on March 30.

Malaysia and the Maldives have agreed to work closely to share information and best practices in tackling terrorism, transnational crime and extremism.

Cambodia and Russia agreed to enhance their bilateral cooperation during the 9th session of the Cambodian-Russian intergovernmental commission.

U Htin Kyaw, a member of Myanmar’s National League for Democracy (NLD) party, was sworn in as President of Myanmar in the capital of Nay Pyi Taw, on March 30. 

Five days before Turkey is due to begin taking back illegal migrants from Greece under a deal with the European Union, neither side is fully ready, with officials scrambling to be able to make at least a symbolic start as new arrivals rise.

Eleven Malaysian fishermen, including three steersmen, on a fishing voyage have been classified as missing after failing to return home on March 28, according to Malaysia’s New Straits Times. 

Thailand’s Constitution Drafting Commission (CDC) issued the proposed new constitution for public review on March 29 in an attempt to pull Thailand out of the decade-long political crisis.

Singapore and Thailand should coordinate more closely to boost two-way trade and strengthen connectivity within the framework of the ASEAN Economic Community, said Singaporean Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan. 

The Obama administration ordered the families of US military and diplomatic personnel to leave parts of southern Turkey on March 29 and warned US citizens against travel to the region amid mounting security concerns.

Another piece of suspected plane debris from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight has been discovered in South Africa, Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai said on March 29.

An EgyptAir plane flying from Alexandria to Cairo was hijacked and forced to land in Cyprus on March 29 by a man with what authorities said was a fake suicide belt, who was arrested after giving himself up.

By launching nuclear-capable missiles Iran has defied a United Nations Security Council resolution that endorsed last year's historic nuclear deal, the United States and its European allies said in a joint letter seen by Reuters on March 29.

The Myanmar government has lifted the state of emergency imposed on western Rakhine state since 2012, according to an announcement of the country’s President's Office on March 29.

The Lao National Election Committee (NEC) has announced results of the election of the eighth National Assembly and provincial People’s Councils that took place on March 20. 

Syrian government forces backed by Russian air strikes battled Islamic State insurgents around Palmyra on March 28, trying to extend their gains after taking back control of a city whose ancient temples were dynamited by the ultra-radical militants.

VOV.VN - Belgium and Europe in general are now tense following 3 terrorist bombings on March 22 at Zaventem airport and Maelbeek metro station in Brussels. 

Belgian prosecutors on March 28 released a man they had charged in connection with last week's deadly Brussels bombings, saying they did not have enough information to justify holding him.

US President Barack Obama will meet with the Republic of Korea (RoK)'s President Park Geun-hye and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on March 31 to discuss the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)'s nuclear program, the White House said March 28.

Iran will pursue its development of ballistic missiles despite the US blacklisting of more Iranian companies linked to the program, a senior Revolutionary Guards commander said on March 28.

Pakistan has decided to launch a paramilitary crackdown on Islamist militants in Punjab, the country's richest and most populous province, after an Easter Day bombing killed 70 people in the provincial capital Lahore, officials said on March 28.

Myanmar's Union Parliament on March 28 approved the establishment of a new Union Election Commission to handle issues of the next general election which is scheduled for 2021. 

Belgian police briefly used water cannon to control several hundred rowdy protesters in central Brussels on March 27 after they ignored an official call for marches to be postponed following the March 22's bombings.

A suicide bomber killed at least 65 people, mostly women and children, at a park in Lahore on March 27 in an attack claimed by a Pakistani Taliban faction which said it had targeted Christians.

Myanmar's Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces Senior-General Min Aung Hlaing pledged to cooperate with the new government to ensure a smooth transfer of power.

Islamic State will struggle to recover from the death of a top aide, reported this week in a U.S. air strike, whose overview of the group's finances, politics and administration was unmatched, Iraqi and U.S. sources said.

Belgian prosecutors charged three men on March 26 with terrorist offences over the Brussels bomb attacks and authorities called off a planned 'march against fear' in the jittery capital to relieve pressure on an over-taxed police force.

President Barack Obama will meet with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg at the White House on April 4 and discuss the fight against Islamic State and the migrant crisis originating in the Middle East, the White House said on March 25.

Belgian police arrested three more people on March 25 as investigations into March 23's suicide bombings by Islamist militants in Brussels threw up more links to killings in Paris last year.