Singapore - The Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) intends to foster greater trust and cooperation between the international community and Myanmar's government, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said Monday. 

Kicking off a meeting of ASEAN's foreign ministers in Singapore, Lee also said ASEAN has decided to press on with the implementation of its landmark charter "without waiting for all 10 members to ratify." 

The crisis over Cyclone Nargis, which struck Myanmar in May, "tested ASEAN unity and forced us to consider what ASEAN meant to Myanmar and in turn what Myanmar meant to the group," Lee said. 

Singapore - Myanmar has indicated that opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi could be freed in six months, because current laws limit her maximum detention period to six years, news reports said Monday.

Singapore Foreign Minister George Yeo said that his Myanmar counterpart, Nyan Win, said that Suu Kyi has "about half a year's time left," according to The Straits Times.

When asked if this meant that the Myanmar opposition leader and Nobel Prize winner would be released, Yeo said, "I think that is not an inaccurate inference."

Singapore - South-East Asian foreign ministers plan to tackle the devastating hardships triggered by spiraling food and oil prices which threaten to derail efforts to create a European Union- style

Singapore - A Singapore lecturer has found a way to determine the health of plants long before they show obvious signs of wilting, a centre for biomedical life sciences said Saturday. 

Singapore, July 18 : ABC''s South Asia correspondent Peter Lloyd, who is based in Ne