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The United States is bringing its Southeast Asian allies on board to tackle what senior officials described as the number one national security priority for the U.S. — North Korea's nuclear proliferation and missile threats — when foreign ministers from Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) gather Thursday in Washington, Voice of America reported.

President Donald Trump has invited Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte to the White House “to discuss the importance of the United States-Philippines alliance,” according to a White House readout of the leaders’ phone call on Saturday.

North Korea is seeking support from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to prevent a potential "nuclear holocaust," as US President Donald Trump warns of the possibility of a "major conflict" in the Korean Peninsula if diplomacy fails.

Interim Prime Minister Ognyan Gerdzhikov has appointed career diplomat Boyko Mirchev as Deputy Foreign Minister, the government says.

Stefan Petrov and Mihail Mihaylov has been appointed as Deputy Defense Ministers.

Transport is a key contributor to economic growth, prosperity and to societal well-being.

Aung San Suu Kyi must step in to prevent the "genocide" of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, Malaysia's prime minister said on Dec. 4 as he mocked the Nobel laureate for her inaction.

The World Bank (WB) has named South Asia as the fastest growing region in the world (in 2016). However, the global lender said that the region is the least integrated in the world, thus, preventing South Asian countries from benefitting from intra-regional trade.

Chinese overseas direct investment (ODI) rose to nearly $120 billion last year, official data showed on Jan. 20, as the world's second-largest economy sought to acquire foreign technologies, expand markets and diversify energy supply.

ODI leapt 14.7 percent from a year earlier to $118.0 billion in 2015, just ahead of the previous year's expansion, according to the commerce ministry.

Bulgaria and China have signed an educational exchange agreement to fully tap into the development potential of that specific sector of bilateral relations, the Foreign Ministry in Sofia said on Thursday.

US President Barack Obama said addressing the ASEAN Summit in Kuala Lumpur that Russia must make a strategic decision about Syria and over the next weeks will show whether Russian President Vladimir Putin will stop backing Bashar al-Assad and join international efforts against Islamic State.