HANOI, Feb 25 — Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim paid a courtesy call on the Communist Party of Vietnam's General Secretary Tô Lâm at the party’s headquarters, marking the start of his two-day working visit to the Asean-member country.

HANOI, Feb 25 — Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has arrived for a two-day working visit to Vietnam, during which he is scheduled to deliver a keynote address at the 2nd Asean Future Forum tomorrow.

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 4 — Timor-Leste President José Ramos-Horta is confident that Asean will admit his country as the eleventh member when Malaysia becomes the bloc’s chairman next year, unlocking trade and economic potential for the young nation.

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 11— Foreign leaders have extended their birthday greetings to Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, marking his 77th birthday yesterday with messages of goodwill and support.

JAKARTA, April 2 — Asean secretary-general Kao Kim Hourn has encouraged Timor-Leste to swiftly meet the requirements outlined in the roadmap for its full membership in Asean.

KUALA LUMPUR, July 24 — The coming visits of several top foreign leaders to Malaysia are a clear sign of their confidence in the country’s political stability, said Professor Azmi Hassan.

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 12 — The Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri'ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah granted an audience to Timor-Leste President José Ramos-Horta at Istana Negara here today.

PUTRAJAYA, Dec 12 — Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim today received a visit from Timor-Leste President José Ramos-Horta at Seri Perdana here.

DILI, Nov 12 — It was as a budding diplomat in the 1970s that Jose Ramos-Horta, a man who would go on to win the Nobel prize for his fight for East Timor's independence, first raised the idea of his country joining Southeast Asia's economic and political bloc.

HANOI, July 20 — Timor Leste wants to boost trade with Indonesia and realise its bid to become a member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) next year.

JAKARTA, May 20 — Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jose Ramos-Horta was inaugurated and sworn in early Friday morning as the President of Timor Leste for the period of 2022 to 2027, making it the second time for him to lead Southeast Asia's youngest nation.