- An insightful BBC interview with Abhisit Vejjajiva, former primer minister and leader of Thailand's opposition Democrat Party, justifying the 'Bangkok Shutdown' and his party’s boycotting of the election.
- Fears of a new Asian flu epidemic hit the media following a new outbreak in China – there are 300 suspected cases and a quarter of victims have died. The issue spurred nationalist sentiment in Vietnam in 2013 and may be repeated in 2014, with the nation put on alert this week. Cambodia and Malaysia have also reported cases of bird flu. Check out Crawford Kilian's excellent blog on all things bird flu.
- What is to come in Thailand?: Michael Montesano in ISEAS Perspective. (Thanks Milton.)
- In the Philippines, illicit financial flows have been worth US$410 billion over the past half-century. A Global Financial Integrity report finds that trade-related fraud is at epidemic proportions.
- Illicit flows of another kind are explored by IDSA's Namrata Goswami in her comment on Southeast Asian drugs and their impact on Northeast India.
- Cambodia's shifting foreign relations are explained by CSIS's Murray Hiebert and Phuong Nguyen.
- McDonald's opened its first restaurant in Vietnam on Saturday. A short segment by Bloomberg on why it matters.
- A short film (11mins), part of an International Organization on Migration campaign, looks at trafficking in Cambodia as it recounts the stories of men sold into slavery on the high seas.
- Another short, Myanmar's Heroin Troubles, highlights the problem of heroin addiction in Kachin State in Myanmar.
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