- Moscow wants ASEAN to increase exports after the West's embargo creates food shortages in Russia.
- Singapore's former foreign minister George Yeo explains that even if the US is a friend, China cannot be an enemy.
- Why engagement matters with Myanmar's armed forces. ISDP's Bernt Berger explains the importance of the military's crucial yet difficult transformation.
- Forty Filipino peacekeepers were attacked and detained in the Syrian Golan Heights before they launched what was later declared the 'greatest escape' under the cover of darkness.
- An IED was found in a van parked in the Philippines' main airport on Monday.
- Citing pressures on Malaysia's 2015 ASEAN chairmanship, 'ASEAN-ness' is still a long way off, according to Datuk Steven Wong from Malaysia's Institute of Strategic and International Studies.
- Indian exports to ASEAN will reach US$280 billion in ten years, according to a new Standard Chartered report. That's a rise from $33 billion this financial year.
- Banking integration in ASEAN is finally making some headway in the lead-up to the 2015 ASEAN Economic Community.
- In a CSIS dialogue, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for South and Southeast Asia Amy Searight outlines AUSMIN outcomes, further naval cooperation in the region, ASEAN, and a stronger US-Australia relationship (when she lucklessly muddles the name of former Prime Minister Julia Gillard).
- Myanmar's first census in decades reveals a smaller population than expected (smaller by 9 million people). Over a million people were not counted.
- Here's the trailer to The Look of Silence, Joshua Oppenheimer's much anticipated follow-up to the acclaimed Act of Killing: