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.



cbslocal.com A meteor was caught on camera exploding in the atmosphere over Bangkok, Thailand by several dashcams.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9I0J2uXCatU



channelnewsasia.com Malaysia's sports minister has threatened to suspend the country's football body after last week's record 10-0 drubbing which has already prompted their coach to quit. Youth and Sports Minister Khairy Jamaluddin said he was prepared to take ''drastic'' measures against the Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) after the embarrassing World Cup qualifying defeat to UAE.

thestar.com.my The allegations that Malaysia's human rights record is on an alarming downward spiral is unwarranted as it is based on unsubstantiated and selective information, said Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Anifah Aman.



voanews.com The UN-backed war crimes court trying the two surviving leaders of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge regime heard its first day of evidence on the charge of genocide. The tribunal last year found Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea, the two former leaders, guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity, a ruling that both men have appealed.



theage.com.au A Melbourne schoolgirl has been stranded in Vietnam for two weeks after her father allegedly took off with her passport then claimed it was stolen at gunpoint. The 11-year-old from Maidstone in Melbourne's west is unable to come back home since her father took her passport and her mother's passport two weeks ago.



anantaranews.com Indonesia can be freed from the haze disaster if it implements several preventive measures and involves the people, according to Willem Rampangilei, the new chief of the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB).



bnionline.net A woman was was trampled to death by wild elephants as she was herding her cattle from a grazing field back to her nearby village in Maungdaw Township, Arakan State on the evening of August 28. According to Kadri, a villager, the woman's name was Ms. Lila, aged 45, from Thay Chaung ( Balu Khali ) village in the Powet Chaung Village Tract of Maungdaw Township.



ft.com Singaporeans head to the polls on Friday in what some observers have suggested is the city-state's most important election since independence. Opposition parties are fielding candidates in all of the country's 29 electoral divisions - the first time the People's Action party has faced such a challenge in its half-century of unbroken rule.



abc.net.au The War on Terror has dominated headlines in Australia for nearly 15 years - so why doesn't the media cover the Philippines, a country in our backyard with a major Muslim insurgency that has links to Islamic State, with more depth and nuance?



xinhua Heads and representatives of military intelligence organizations from 24 countries across the world met for a conference on pursuing stability through defense intelligence cooperation. The 8th Asia-Pacific Intelligence Chiefs Conference (APICC) will focus on the main topics of maritime security, anti- transnational crime and law enforcers' training for combating terrorism, according to a press release issued by Brunei's Ministry of Defense.