Japan and five southeastern Asian countries, located along the Mekong River, namely Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam, have agreed to enhance their long-established cooperation raising it to the strategic partnership level, media reported on Wednesday.

St. Petersburg-based JSC "UEC-Klimov" aircraft engines designer, which is a part of Russia's Rostec state corporation, and Vietnam's Helicopter Technical Service Company have signed a distributorship agreement on service maintenance of helicopter engines, which provides for the establishment of an integrated logistical support center in Vietnam, Rostec press service said in a statement on Monday.

The UAE Federal National Council's, FNC, Parliamentary Division concluded its participation in the Asian Parliamentary Assembly meeting held between 4th and 6th October, in ?zmir, Turkey.

The European Union is sending a fact-finding mission to Myanmar to look into reports of human rights violations and might, eventually, exclude the county from a duty-free trade initiative, EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom said on Friday.

A plane of the Russian Emergencies Ministry delivered 36 tonnes of humanitarian relief to Laos on Saturday as the Asian country has been recently hit with floods, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.