- Too close to the bone? Thailand banned a video game where the player engages in a role-play as a dictator to fend off uprisings, and rigs elections in a restive tropical country.
- The Thai Junta has reactivated a 2010 ‘cyber scout’ program which will ‘observe (online) behavior that is deemed a threat to national security and protect the royal institution.’
- US Secretary of State John Kerry thanked ASEAN for its 'committed partnership' as the US pushed for greater US-ASEAN cooperation. On the sidelines of the ASEAN Regional Forum, he was in hot water with his Chinese counter-part after arriving late for a meeting with an unimpressed Wang Yi.
- In a week of much international dialogue in Southeast Asia, The Diplomat looks at the battle for ASEAN between the US and China.
- As widely predicted, the Malaysian Government has de-listed its troubled state-run airline after MH17 and MH370 disasters this year.
- Battling the Southeast Asian pollution haze, Singapore passes a new law.
- 'Smaller small Navies' in Southeast Asia are a good thing for regional resilience, argues Koh Swee Lean Collin at RSIS.
- The Economist takes an insightful look at gerrymandering in Malaysia and why the main party, United Malays National Organisation, has been in office since 1957.
- Puangthong Pawakapan looks at the Thai Junta’s Interim Constitution in an ISEAS Perspective Paper.
- John Cole and Steve Sciacchitano take an excellent look at 'coup as counter-insurgency in Thailand.'
- The struggling Thai economy is putting pressure on the Junta.
- Human Rights Watch wrote this open letter to Obama on US policy towards Myanmar.
- After his Buddha leg tattoo launched him into Facebook stardom in Myanmar, a Canadian backpacker was forced to leave the country this week.
- Former Khmer Rouge leaders Khieu Samphan and Huon Chea were found guilty of crimes against humanity this week and were sentenced to life in prison. Here is the ruling of the Extraordinary Chambers of the Courts of Cambodia.