President Obama's first State of the Union address came at a time when his Democratic Party is still reeling from a stinging defeat last week for a U.S.Senate seat in the heavily Democratic state, Massachusetts.

VOA: standard.2010.01.28

"The key message that we want to get across this time is for ASEAN to really address, to really engage dialogue with the regime of how they have already been breaching the charter so that as a regional bloc that we really want it on the table as official agenda,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.09