Southeast Asian foreign ministers meeting in the Philippines have again tried to push Burma to accelerate its promised democratic reforms. As VOA's Heda Bayron reports from the city of Cebu, the North Korean nuclear issue also featured high on the agenda in discussions between the ministers and their counterparts from Northern Asia and India.

A month late, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN, will hold its annual summit next week in the Philippines. The meeting, from January 10 to 15th, was postponed in December, when a typhoon threatened to strike the summit city. Douglas Bakshian has more from Manila.