- Nearly 2000 people (mostly Rohingya) have been rescued or have swum ashore in Malaysia and Indonesia as they escape offshore camps run by trafficking rackets. It's thought that a further 6000 people could still be held at sea.
- RSIS has been been running an interesting series of retrospectives on the life of Lee Kuan Yew; Eddie Teo here and Wang Gungwu here. (Thanks Milton.)
- George Orwell’s essays have found a new audience with local Burmese translations almost a century after the writer himself left Burma.
- Archaeology could wreck China's sea claims, says Michael Flecker. (Thanks Malcolm.)
- Cambodia says ASEAN should stay out of South China Sea dispute, suggesting renewed pressure on Phnom Penh from Beijing. (Thanks @karmanomad.)
- Vietnam and South Korea finalised an FTA, which will double bilateral trade over next five years.
- Bilahari Kausikan, Singapore's Ambassador-at-Large, spoke on Asian security architecture at ANU.
- After a long week of negotiations between armed ethnic groups in Myanmar (draft resolutions here), more doubt is cast on the viability of draft nationwide ceasefire agreement. Wai Moe wrote on Why Kokang Rebels are giving fits to the Burmese military. The Myanmar Peace Centre's Aung Naing Oo on the long road for peace.
- With fears of a new ADIZ emerging, Crisis Group released an excellent new report on the South China Sea. Beijing tells Manila to stop 'malicious hyping and provocation'. Philippines undersecretary Del Rosario talks foreign affairs with Asian Correspondent.
- The Borneo Project, an advocacy group, looked at the 12 planned mega-dams in Sarawak, Malaysia and why they may be a bad investment.
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