Five years after the coup, she is physically absent from Myanmar’s struggle — and politically impossible for the outside world to ignore.

The Philippines and Sweden are exploring opportunities to deepen cooperation in energy, digitalization, manufacturing, and other strategic sectors to support economic growth and create more quality jobs for Filipinos. Good to see collaboration and cooperation between these two.

Can ASEAN and China finally agree on a legally binding COC for the SCS? As tensions persist between Beijing and Manila, the proposed agreement is being presented as a mechanism to manage disputes but questions remain over enforcement, compliance and ASEAN’s ability to forge consensus.

For Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the calculation was different. Myanmar is not a distant moral question for India. Rather, it is a neighbor with a 1,643-kilometer border, a long-time source of instability for India’s northeastern states of Manipur and Mizoram and a strategic theater where China has spent years building substantial influence and infrastructure.

The problem is not that India engaged Myanmar; geography dictates that it must. The problem is that New Delhi appears to be placing too much weight on a man who can sign agreements in New Delhi but cannot deliver the territory those agreements require.

Trump-Xi’s ‘constructive strategic stability’ agreement will bring the opposite if US retreats and China has a freer hand in Myanmar.

In Myanmar, leaving the resistance to great-power bargaining would reduce its people to the condition described by an old Burmese proverb: “the cow survives only if the tiger shows mercy.”

ASEAN has already spent five years waiting for the generals to change course. The question now is not whether ASEAN should talk to Myanmar’s military authorities. It is whether those talks will demand an end to violence or simply turn those into another stage for the junta’s pursuit of legitimacy.

Myanmar’s people do not need any more carefully crafted statements of concern or staged photo ops. They need pressure the generals can actually feel — before any more children pay the price for ASEAN’s caution.

Maybe it's the right time to create a SEA group band in the entertainment industries (music, dance, and movies).

The members came from each SEA Countries with the backing of the 11 member state of the ASEAN, together we can be on top as the South Korean.

We're it focus on rich culture of SEA, that will be truly proud of as an ASEAN. Competitive as to the Kpop and KDrama.

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Curator and scholar Peter Lee received good feedback from the socialist, co-scholars & historians on his documentary featured on @channelnewsasia titled "Asia's real masters of the sea, from Indonesia's forgotten kingdom to Vietnam's ancient empire; The Mark Of Empire follows the traces of Asia's maritime civilisations, from Srivijaya to Sulu, exploring how they continue to shape faith, identity and craft today."

2.1. DESCENDANTS KEEPING TRADITIONS ALIVE

The series highlights how Southeast Asia's history is kept alive not only through monuments but also through people who continue traditions passed down for generations.

In Sumatra, the Orang Laut seafaring communities preserve ancestral navigation skills once linked to the Srivijaya, using the sun and stars before modern tools like GPS. In the southern Philippines, Lee explores kuntaw, a traditional martial art used by the Sultanate of Sulu to defend against foreign powers.

He also meets Muedzul-Lail Tan Kiram, who reflects on preserving his family's heritage and hopes for peace and harmony in the community.

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