(VOV) -Senior immigration officials from the ten ASEAN member countries discussed ways to enhance regional cooperation at a forum which opened on September 8 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Vietnam has called upon the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA) members to forge ahead with cooperation with and urge the governments of ASEAN member states to fulfill the mission of building key pillars for the ASEAN Community. 

An explosion shook a chemical plant in the Chinese province of Zhejiang, state media said on September 7, though there were no immediate reports of casualties in a country on edge after blasts killed more than 160 people last month.

Struggling to cope with record numbers of asylum seekers, Germany told its European partners on September 7 they too must take in more refugees, as police in Hungary used pepper spray on desperate migrants who broke out of a reception center at the border.

Chief of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP)’s Executive Committee of Takeo province’s Pray Kabbas district Chhea Tang Sorn has been arrested for distributing leaflets warning against Vietnamese policies towards Cambodia and disrupting national security.

The number of banks from ASEAN countries is expected to increase in Vietnam in the coming years as the domestic banking market opens following the carrying out of regional integration commitments.

Austria said on September 6 it planned to end emergency measures that have allowed thousands of refugees stranded in Hungary into Austria and Germany since September 5 morning.

The European Union and the United States have clinched a deal protecting personal data shared for law enforcement purposes such as terrorism investigations, according to a document seen by Reuters.

Thailand’s National Reform Council (NRC) on September 6 voted to reject the draft constitution for the country, reported the Bangkok Post.

(VOV) -ASEAN Secretary General Le Luong Minh has appreciated Egypt's keen interest in promoting good relations with ASEAN and its intention in deepening its diplomatic outreach in Southeast Asia.

Britain moved closer to military action in Syria as a senior minister on September 5 said Europe's migration crisis had to be tackled at its source and a newspaper said a parliamentary vote on bombing Islamic State militants in Syria could take place next month.

(VOV) - The US and Saudi Arabia will continue security cooepration in the Middle East despite recent differences between the two countries over regional issues.

Thousands of exhausted migrants streamed into Austria on September 5, bussed to the border by a Hungarian government that gave up trying to stop them as Europe’s asylum system buckled under pressure from the sheer numbers reaching its frontiers.

French prosecutors confirmed on September 3 that a wing part found in Reunion Island on July 29 certainly came from missing flight MH370 of the Malaysia Airlines.

A Thai court on September 3 issued an arrest warrant against a Chinese national in connection with a deadly bombing in Bangkok last month, reported Thai police. 

Iran's Supreme Leader said on September 3 he favored a parliamentary vote on its nuclear deal reached with world powers and called for sanctions against Tehran to be lifted completely rather than suspended, state television reported.

The map the Cambodian Government is using to demarcate the country’s border with Vietnam is identical with the map it borrowed from France, showed the verification conducted by Cambodia’s border commission. 

Thai police detained Kamarudeng Saho, a Thai national, suspected of involvement in the deadly bomb attack at Erawan Shrine in Bangkok that killed 20 people and injured 120 others on August 17. 

President Barack Obama on September 2 secured the 34th Senate vote needed to sustain a veto of any congressional resolution disapproving a nuclear deal with Iran, ensuring the accord will not fail in the US Congress.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton would launch a US$10 billion initiative to tackle drug and alcohol addiction, a problem she speaks of often on the campaign trail and which affects 23 million Americans.

Supporters of the international nuclear agreement with Iran moved within one vote of mustering enough support to protect the deal in the US Congress on September 1 when two more Democratic senators said they would support the pact.

The candidates for the 16 group representation constituencies and 13 single-member constituencies in Singapore filed their nomination papers for the General Election on September 1. 

The 13th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Environment (AMME 13) is scheduled to take place in Hanoi from October 26 to 30, according to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE).

A heavily produced propaganda video from Islamic State purports to show a newly minted form of coin currency for use within territory IS militants have claimed.

A Ukrainian national guardsman was killed and nearly 90 others wounded by grenades hurled from a crowd of nationalist protesters on August 31 as they were guarding parliament where lawmakers backed giving more autonomy to rebel-held areas.

The Iraqi government says it has recaptured the desert area to the west of Samarra from Islamic State forces, and says the operation will move down to recapture Anbar.

Former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on August 31 appeared before the Supreme Court, where she is being tried for mismanaging a rice subsidy scheme that cost the country billions of US dollars.

Thailand’s Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives will host 'SIMA ASEAN Thailand 2015', the Southeast Asian Agri-Business Show, at Hall 1-2 in Impact Arena, Muang Thong Thani, from September 17-19, 2015. 

An air strike by warplanes from a Saudi-led coalition, which said it targeted a bomb-making factory, killed 36 civilians working at a bottling plant in the northern Yemeni province of Hajjah on August 30, residents said.

European Union ministers were summoned on August 30 to meet in two weeks' time to seek urgent solutions to a migration crisis unprecedented in the bloc's history, as the mounting death toll on land and sea forced governments to respond.