- During the visit of the Vietnamese PM to Australia last week, the two countries agreed to an enhanced comprehensive partnership. The Government's view of proceedings here, the WSJ’s take on the visit and, most comprehensively, Carl Thayer's look here.
- New Zealand and Vietnam also strengthened ties.
- In a worrying sign of appeasement, Malaysia's ruling party joined with the opposition to pass hudud law in the opposition-held Kelantan.
- Jokowi said that Beijing's claims in the South China Sea have no legal base. Meanwhile, Japan and Indonesia agreed to strengthen defence ties.
- An interesting round up of satellite imagery of the Spratly Islands.
- Myanmar welcomed the Solar Impulse 2 plane in what was a highly symbolic visit in a country where the majority of citizens still don't have access to electricity. The landing was attended by President Thein Sein and Army Chief Min Aung Hlaing.
- Social media was abuzz this week with the shoddy photoshopping of an umbrella over a deputy minister in Myanmar.
- Why ASEAN isn’t pressuring Myanmar to reform, Nikolay Anguelov explains in Foreign Affairs. Also in Foreign Affairs (a special addition on ISIS), Joseph Chinyong Liow looked at ISIS's spread through Southeast Asia.
- Aung San Suu Kyi’s opposition party expelled 20,000 temporary citizenship holders from its ranks ahead of the government’s request for the controversial 'white cards' return.
- Michael Vatikiotis argued that the US must support peace more forcefully in the Philippines.
- The region's newspapers have been full of praise for Lee Kuan Yew, who died on Monday. Singapore's Prime Minister's Office released this tribute to the man who built an impossible nation: