The ASEAN-Australia Special Summit that starts in Melbourne on Monday ... Australia has hosted ASEAN leaders once before in Sydney in 2018. 2021 Year military junta seized control of Myanmar ...

There was no consensus among the ASEAN foreign ministers about having a political representative from Myanmar at the summit, so the ministers decided to instead invite a non-political representati ...

noting that Biden already hosted the first-ever Washington summit with ASEAN leaders last year. Ja-Ian Chong, an associate professor of political science at the National University of Singapore, ...

The consensus has made scant progress since its unveiling in April 2021, just months after ... into dialogue with its opponents. During an Asean summit in October, the bloc called for "an ...

Malaysia officially assumed the Asean chairmanship on Jan 1, 2025, under the theme of Inclusivity and Sustainability, reflecting the nation’s aspiration to shape a united and prosperous Asean.