PHUKETWAN recognises the importance of Asean with the Economic Community approaching and marks what's happening around the region with a new column, Asean Today.



channelnewsasia.com A Citilink Airbus A320 skidded off a runway in Padang, western Indonesia, injuring three people and forcing the airport to shut down, according to a transportation ministry official and local media.



dailymail.co.uk British convicted pedophile Robert Fruin, 38, has been deported to the UK to be jailed to complete a two-year sentence for abusing three brothers aged eight, 10 and 11 while working as a teacher in Cambodia.

xinhua Cambodia has deported 1484 illegal immigrants to their birth countries within the first seven months of 2015, the National Police's website reported, citing a senior immigration police officer.



washingtonpost.com Editorial: A move up in the State Department's trafficking categories essentially amounts to a statutory pat on the back. A move down encourages a country to do better or risk restrictions on aid or funding. Malaysia does not deserve congratulations. It deserves the kind of censure that will force it to change.

bbc.com Malaysia is asking other Indian Ocean islands near French-owned Reunion to be on the lookout for more possible debris after a wing part suspected of being from missing flight MH370 came ashore. The Malaysia Airlines plane, carrying 239 people, vanished in March 2014.



straitstimes.com News Analysis: A prominent case involves the trial of two journalists from a small news website called Phuketwan, arising from a defamation lawsuit brought by the Thai Navy. The navy alleged defamation over a paragraph that Phuketwan cited from a Pulitzer Prize-winning story which exposed official complicity in the smuggling of Rohingya migrants through Thailand.
http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/thailand-must-do-more-to-manage-migrants



channelnewsasia.com In a country dominated by two-wheelers, Vietnam's gay pride parade on Sunday was fittingly on bicycle and motorbike. A notable guest was US Ambassador to Vietnam Ted Osius, the first gay American Ambassador to be appointed in Asia.



news.sky.com The death toll from flash floods and landslides in Burma is set to spike, the UN has warned, with more heavy rain forecast for the coming days. Government figures suggest at least 27 people have been killed.



afp Asean and China are discussing setting up a ''hotline'' in case of an emergency regarding the territorial dispute over the South China Sea, a Philippine official said on Sunday.



nytimes.com ''Laos hasn't recorded a single illicit wildlife seizure since officials started keeping records in 1989, making it a smuggler's paradise,'' US Republican Party politician Ed Royce, who is chairman of the House Foreign Relations Committee, said in an email.