- During her visit to Myanmar and Laos last week, Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop announced greater funding for education in the two countries and a $24.6 million package to facilitate Myanmar’s peaceful democratic transition.
- Buddhist mobs attacked Mandalay’s Muslim community in Myanmar’s second-largest city following the rape of a Buddhist woman allegedly by two Muslim men. The riots left two dead and a dozen people injured.
- Sports diplomacy took centre stage in the South China Sea as the Vietnamese and Philippines navies came together for a sports day on the Spratly Islands.
- Vietnam will shortly file a lawsuit against China's state-owned oil company CNOOC, according to Prime Minister Dung.
- The troubles of tackling tobacco in Vietnam.
- Bangkok Pundit explains the reasons behind the mass exodus of over 200,000 Cambodian workers from Thailand and the damage to Thailand's already struggling economy.
- Who's winning the battle between China and Japan over Myanmar? ISEAS's Zhao Hong takes a look.
- And finally this week, the Annual Laotian Rocket Festival: