PHUKETWAN recognises the importance of Asean with the Economic Community approaching and marks what's happening around the region with a column, Asean Today, that will cease when Phuketwan closes on December 31.



npr.org This past week, NPR adjusted the guidance it gives to its journalists about how to refer to that nation. The new advice: ''When reporting about or from Myanmar, it is no longer necessary to say at the top that it is 'Myanmar, also known as Burma,' as our style has been since 2011. We feel there are very few in the audience who still need that immediate reminder.''



afp The Philippines vowed ''higher security'' for world leaders at an economic summit in Manila next week after a series of bombings and shootings left more than 120 dead in Paris.

dw.com US President Barack Obama will be among the leaders of 20 countries including China, Japan, Australia and Canada for the annual Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Manila on November 18-19.



bangkokpost.com Security personnel have been ordered to tighten measures at all key tourist attractions and border areas in Thailand following the attacks in Paris.



themalaysianinsider.com Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (Isis) is attempting to recruit lecturers skilled in weapons and explosives from Malaysia and Indonesia, says Deputy Home Minister Datuk Nur Jazlan Mohamed. ''They (Isis) thought their movement cannot be traced but the Royal Malaysian Police has managed to curb their activities,'' he said when commenting on a newspaper report of a plan to set up a Southeast Asian chapter of Isis led by Mahmud Ahmad, a former lecturer from Malaysia.



afp Singapore raised its security alert level following a wave of bombings and shootings in Paris that left at least 120 people dead, officials said.



thejakartapost.com The Indonesian government has condemned a string of attacks reported to have killed at least 100 people in Paris, France and has urged Indonesians living there to remain cautious, the Foreign Ministry said.



hrw.org Cambodian authorities should rescind the politically motivated arrest warrant for opposition leader Sam Rainsy and quash the wrongful convictions on which it is based, Human Rights Watch said.



3news.co.nz Trade will be high on the agenda when Prime Minister John Key meets with his Vietnamese counterpart in Hanoi. Mr Key touched down in Vietnam's capital on Saturday evening.



Theguardian.com For centuries Laos has been known as the Land of a Million Elephants. Now there are fewer than 900 of the iconic creatures - and less than half of those are wild. If the population continues to decline at the current rate, elephants will be extinct in Laos within a few decades.