Uzbek President Islam Karimov has died aged 78 after suffering a stroke, leaving no obvious successor to take over the Central Asian nation.

An explosion at a packed night market in the home city of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte killed at least 12 people on September 2 and wounded dozens more, officials said, but the cause of the blast was not immediately clear.

A blast caused by a fire at a weapons storage depot in eastern Baghdad on September 2 set off rockets that hit neighboring districts, killing at least four residents and injuring 14 others.

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has called on Malaysians to be wary of a "new form of colonialism", which could destroy the unity and harmony the country established since gaining independence 59 years ago.

The G20 summit of developed and emerging economies will take place in the Chinese city of Hangzhou on September 4-5.

The leaders of Germany, France and Italy will discuss the migrant crisis with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on the sidelines of a meeting of the G20 countries in China next week, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on September 1.

Companies building a multi-billion dollar bridge to link the Russian mainland with annexed Crimea were targeted by the United States in an updated sanctions blacklist on September 1.

Kurdish Peshmerga forces retook a swath of northern Iraq late last month from Islamic State and days later American forces appeared in the area, the latest sign of increasing US military activity in the country.

A Russia-ASEAN forum to boost business education cooperation was opened on September 1 as part of the Eastern Economic Forum in the Russian city of Vladivostok. 

VOV.VN -  The 16th session of ASEAN’s Socio-Cultural Community Council (ASCC) concluded in Vientiane on August 31 with the adoption of significant documents.