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A strong 6.8-magnitude earthquake rocked Sulawesi island, Indonesia, on April 12, triggering a tsunami warning, the US Geological Survey said.

Central World – Thailand’s biggest shopping complex in Bangkok – has been closed for investigation into the reason of a blaze occurred on April 10

A search and rescue team on April 9 rescued two miners and found five dead bodies after a landslide hit an artisanal diamond mine in Banjarbaru, South Kalimantan province of Indonesia a day earlier.

Indonesia plans to set up buoys and cable base tsunameters (CBT) near Mount Krakatau to give early warning if tidal waves occur.

A powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 6.3 jolted 197 kilometres of north-northwest of Dili, Timor Leste at 21:55 on April 6 (local time), the US Geological Survey said.

A delegation of the ASEAN Committee in Madrid (ACM) led by Vietnamese Ambassador to Spain Ngo Tien Dung, who is also President of the ACM in 2019, visited the Spanish region of Basque from April 1-4.

National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan concluded her working visit to the European Parliament and left Brussels, Belgium, for Doha, Qatar

The 23rd ASEAN Finance Ministers’ Meeting (AFMM) and the fifth ASEAN Finance Ministers' and Central Bank Governors' Meeting (AFMGM) took place in Chiang Rai

Southeast Asian governments, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and major development financiers on April 4 launched a new initiative to invest more than 1 billion USD in green infrastructure projects across Southeast Asia.

President of the Republic of Korea (RoK) Moon Jae-in will hold a summit with the leaders of ten Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member countries in November

Myanmar authorities seized more than 1,700 kg of crystal meth worth nearly 29 million USD in a multi-state operation this week, making it the country’s biggest haul captured since the beginning of 2019.

Singapore’s central bank is likely to keep its monetary policy stance on hold in its meeting next month as inflation eases and the growth outlook for the export-reliant economy dims.