Kerry, ASEAN Ministers Talk South China Sea

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is in Burma, also known as Myanmar, for talks with Southeast Asian foreign ministers about tensions in the South China Sea and other multilateral issues. Kerry began the day Saturday by meeting with the senior diplomats from members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, assembled in the administrative capital of Naypyidaw for an annual security conference. The United States had submitted a proposal for a freeze on provocative acts in the...

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