Southeast Asian foreign ministers will meet on Wednesday as the region grapples with renewed uncertainty over U.S. trade tariffs and as a simmering territorial dispute between Thailand and Cambodia threatens to disrupt the bloc's unity.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will visit Malaysia later this week to attend a meeting of Southeast Asian Nations in his first visit to the Indo-Pacific region as America's top diplomat, the State Department said in a statement.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will make his first trip to Asia since taking up his post, traveling this week to Malaysia for meetings with ASEAN allies, his office said Monday."In his first trip to Asia as Secretary of State,