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Southeast Asian football's brightest prospects will get the chance to showcase their abilities once more when the biennial ASEAN U-23 Championship returns in July. Officially known as the ASEAN U-23 Mandiri Cup 2025, the tournament kicks off on July 15 and will run all the way through to July 29.
Rising unilateralism and nationalism are increasingly sidelining multilateral cooperation – a core pillar of global stability now under strain, says Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Mohamad Hasan.
With nine rounds of renegotiation already completed for the ASEAN FTA review—following the bloc's commitment to renegotiate in November 2019—sources pointed out that all offensive and defensive interests of the industry are being kept in mind for FTAs with complementary economies.
Foreign ministers from China and members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations have discussed bolstering economic ties.
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Indonesian Foreign Affairs Minister Sugiono urged the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and China to pursue more concrete cooperation in several
FM Wang Yi presses Southeast Asian countries meeting not to undermine interests of ‘the third party’ as region grapples with US tariffs.
Malaysia's Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim revealed discussions with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on trade tariffs. Anwar highlighted the U.S.'s interest in enhancing cooperation with ASEAN, emphasizing the region's trade autonomy.
Foreign Minister Wang Yi has spoken about closer cooperation between China and Southeast Asian nations at an Asean foreign ministers' meeting in
As the United States targets Chinese transshipment through Southeast Asia with steep new tariffs, India is reportedly intensifying pressure on ASEAN to fix longstanding asymmetries in their free trade pact — a deal that has enabled indirect inflows of Chinese goods into India for years.