The ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community Council (ASCC) convened its 16th meeting in Vientiane, Laos, on August 31 with the participation of officials in charge from the 10 member countries. 

Myanmar’s 21st Century Panglong Peace Conference opened in the capital of Nay Pyi Taw on August 31, aiming to end nearly-seven-decade-long conflicts in the country. 

Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon arrived in Nay Pyi Taw on August 30, beginning his two-day working visit to Myanmar.

VOV.VN - The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) recently continued testing its submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM), which fell inside Japan’s Air Defense Identification Zone over the Sea of Japan.

Islamic State said on August 30 one of its most prominent and longest-serving leaders was killed in what appeared to be an American air strike in Syria, depriving the militant group of the man in charge of directing attacks overseas.

At least 10 people, including soldiers and civilians, were killed in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on August 30 when a car bomb claimed by al Shabaab exploded outside the Presidential Palace and also damaged two nearby hotels, an official said.

Philippine Foreign Minister Perfecto Yasay on August 30 said that China will be the "loser" if it does not recognise the ruling of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague, the Netherlands over the East Sea dispute.

The Obama administration will meet its goal of admitting 10,000 Syrian refugees this fiscal year a month ahead of schedule and is working with Congress to increase the target by a few thousand in 2018, the White House said on August 29.

A suicide bomber killed at least 54 people when he drove a car bomb into a militia compound in Aden on August 29, the health ministry said, in one of the deadliest attacks claimed by Islamic State in the southern Yemeni port city.

An expected explosion in US tourism to Cuba will likely take years to materialize even after US airlines resume commercial flights to the Caribbean island this week for the first time since 1961, industry official said.