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United States President Donald Trump may attend the 47th Asean Summit and related summits in October, says US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Read full story

Malaysia's Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has officially invited U.S. President Donald Trump to attend the upcoming ASEAN Summit in October, held in Malaysia. The meeting, which encompasses the East Asia Summit,

The invitation comes amid sweeping tariffs the US president slapped on Asean’s member states. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

KUALA LUMPUR: US President Donald Trump is likely to make an appearance at the Asean summit here in October, says US secretary of state Marco Rubio. When asked by reporters at the 58th Asean Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (AMM) and Related Meetings today if it would be possible to see Trump at the summit, Rubio briefly said: “It’s possible, yes.”

Malaysia is optimistic it can reach a deal with the US to lower tariffs ahead of the Aug. 1 deadline for trade talks after President Donald Trump threatened to impose a steeper levy on the Southeast Asian country,

Asia-Pacific's largest security forum was set to begin Thursday as top diplomats gathered in Malaysia, but steep tariffs by U.S. President Donald Trump are expected to overshadow the annual gatherings.

Trump on April 2 proposed a 20% tariff for EU goods and then threatened to raise that to 50% after negotiations did not move as fast as he would have liked, only to return to the 10% baseline. The EU has 27 member states, including France, Germany, Italy and Spain.