Southeast Asian foreign ministers are gathering for their first meeting this year under the regional bloc’s new chair, Malaysia, seeking a breakthrough over Myanmar’s drawn-out civil war and territorial disputes in the South China Sea.

Thai police said Wang was trafficked across the Thai-Myanmar border and held captive at KK Park in Myawaddy, which is notorious for its illegal scam operations

Malaysian diplomat Othman Hashim faces the weary task of engaging the junta and persuading it to abide by a Five-Point Consensus ASEAN drew up after the coup.

The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government raised travel alert for southeastern Myanmar to red on Friday (Jan 17), following a number of cases of Hong Kong residents being lured to Southeast Asian countries and forced to work at scam farms.

Amidst the increasing reports of Hong Kong residents being lured to Southeast Asian countries and detained to engage in illegal work, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Government has raised the Outbound Travel Alert (OTA) level for Myanmar’s south-eastern regions to red, while maintaining an amber OTA for the rest of the country.

The Government raises the outbound travel alert for Myanmar (south-eastern regions) to red, while maintaining an amber alert for the rest of the country.

The Civil Society Network and international agencies call on Thailand’s rights commission to step in as Mae Sot remains a key transit point for Myanmar-based criminal syndicates

Michael Martin is an adjunct fellow at Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). He served as a specialist policy adviser on Myanmar, China, Hong Kong, and Vietnam for two decades. His work included a 15-year tenure as a political and economic analyst with the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress.

ASEAN's fifth envoy to Myanmar, Tan Sri Othman Hashim, appointed during the bloc's meeting of foreign ministers.

The government on Friday raised its travel alert for southeastern Myanmar to red, following cases of Hongkongers being lured there and forced to

Southeast Asia—and particularly Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar—has become a hub for cybercrime activity. A United Nations report released last year claimed that Southeast Asian cybercrime groups earned $37 billion through criminal activity in 2023.

At a meeting in Bangkok, ASEAN digital ministers committed to more collaboration to create a safer digital environment.