Incoming Philippine President Ferdinand Bongbong Marcos Jnr will barely have time to toast his presidential victory, as a mounting set of challenges awaits him. After he is sworn in on Thursday (June 30), he will have to tackle the ongoing surge in prices of basic goods, electricity and oil, alongside a looming energy crisis and pressure from China to sign.
KOTA KINABALU, Dec 9 The Southern Philippines officials and the Sulu militia were making secret plans to invade Sabah, according to a regional security who said this could take place next February, nine years after a deadly incursion into Lahad Datu. According to a report by South China Morning.
A secret meeting to discuss plans to send an armed militia to invade the Malaysian state of Sabah on Borneo island is believed to have been held by a senior local government official in the southern Philippines, a senior regional security source has told This Week In Asia. The Dec 1 meeting was conducted by a locally-elected official of Sulu.
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Asean foreign ministers held an emergency meeting on Tuesday afternoon during which the bloc called on Myanmar’s military rulers to stop violence against demonstrators and immediately release civilian leaders as a first step towards quelling the unrest that has followed last month’s coup.
Ahead of the talks, police in Myanmar continued to use violence – including the firing of live bullets – to disperse crowds as protests continued in Yangon and across the country, Reuters reported, citing activists and eye witnesses.
The virtual Asean (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) meeting began at 4pm Hong Kong time and lasted about two hours.Myanmar was represented by Wunna Maung Lwin, who was appointed foreign minister after the February 1 coup against the civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her ruling National League for Democracy (NLD).