- An exchange of presidential letters marks a thawing of US-Iran relations. (Thanks Alex.)
- Arms Control Wonk has collected links to all the key sources on Syria's chemical weapons.
- Digital finance offers potentially huge benefits for the poor.
- Joshua Kurlantzick introduces CFR's new interactive on China's maritime disputes.
- Dutch social policy is running about twenty years ahead of the rest of the West, which eventually catches up.
- Pull the 'C' out of BRICS, and the building falls down.
- Lee Kuan Yew is 90 years old. What is his legacy, and what will his absence mean, for Singapore? The Economist has more on LKY.
- Interpreter regular Tim Dunne has co-authored a new report on Syria and norms about intervention and chemical weapons.
- The World Bank's Asia blog has a nice slideshow of Yangon's circular railway, the main commuter train service around Myanmar's capital biggest city.
[youtube:0sM8XNUiCgw#t=78]