ASEAN HEADLINES: DEMOCRACY-PRESS FREEDOM: BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN — Myanmar junta agrees to Asean call for ceasefire to distribute aid–Kyodo

. Brunei’s second foreign affairs minister and ASEAN’s special envoy to Myanmar Erywan Yusof speaks during an interview with Reuters

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ASEAN HEADLINES: TOKYO PARALYMPIC- TOKYO, Japan- Look who’s laughing now! Liek Hou goes from being teased to Paralympic gold medallist

Bernama . MALAYSIA COVID-19 (UPDATES) New Cases: 19,378 Total Cases: 1,805,382 Recovered: 1,528,672 Deaths: 17,521 . . . TOKYO: Tokyo Paralympics gold

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BREAKING NEWS-ASEAN HEADLINES: FALL OF AFGHANISTAN: KABUL- Last U.S. troops leave Afghanistan, ending the United States’ longest war

President Biden  Blinken says under 200 Americans in Afghanistan Secretary of State Antony Blinken says fewer than 200 Americans remain

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ASEAN HEADLINES: DEMOCRACY-FREEDOM: PHNOM PENH, Cambodia- Victimised again: Colourised altered images of ‘smiling’ S-21 prisoners condemned

Three S-21 prison victims whose photos were altered by Matt Loughrey to show them smiling. Twitter . . There has been

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