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.



theage.com.au Local and international corruption fighters say Australia has become an investment hot spot for the crooked and corrupt. An eight-month Fairfax Media investigation has traced suspicious money flows, court files and corporate records across three continents: ''All I know is that they are powerful back in Malaysia.''
http://www.theage.com.au/national/corrupt-malaysia-money-distorts-melbourne-market-20150622-ghu6a0.html



AUSTRALIA'S top current affairs show, Four Corners, alleges there are many more Rohingya graves in a Thai border town near the home of at least one trafficker. And in Burma, more deaths at the hands of racist neighbors seem likely.

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http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/2015/06/22/4257490.htm



reuters A French national who lost his last-ditch appeal against the death sentence on Monday will not be executed during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, a spokesman for the Indonesian Attorney General's Office said. An Indonesian court rejected Serge Atlaoui's appeal against the death sentence, making him the latest foreigner to face execution for drug offences.



theguardian.com An influential group of Buddhist monks in Burma is proposing to ban Muslim schoolgirls from wearing headscarves, in the latest sign of growing religious tension in the country. The Organisation for the Protection of Race and Religion, a panel of monks known locally by the acronym Ma Ba Tha, said the headscarves were ''not in line with school discipline''.



Kyodo News The leaders of the four least-developed members of the Association of Southeast Nations - Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam - agreed at a summit in Myanmar's capital to promote cooperation in such areas as trade and investment, transport, agriculture, tourism and development of human resources.



hrw.org Singapore authorities should exonerate a 16-year-old convicted for a blog and video post about the death of Singapore's founding prime minister, Lee Kuan Yew, Human Rights Watch said today. Amos Yee Pang Sang has a sentencing hearing on June 23, 2015, and faces up to three years in prison or 18 months in a juvenile detention center.



reuters Sixteen international human rights groups urged Cambodia to withdraw a proposed law they fear will muzzle government critics and severely restrict the activities of non-governmental organisations. The law would require Cambodia's 5000 domestic and international NGOs to report their activities and finances to the government, according to a draft leaked to the media last week.



cnn.com ''I always remember that horrible day that we ran from life to death,'' says Kim Phuc, the girl in that iconic photo. Now 52, she lives just outside Toronto, a wife, mother and survivor inextricably linked to a photograph that dominated front pages in 1972, seven months before the signing of Paris Peace Accords led to the withdrawal of US combat forces from South Vietnam.



rappler.com The Philippines is buying nearly 100 new patrol boats to protect its fisheries, an official said Monday, June 22, in a substantial expansion from its current fleet of 20 as it responds to poaching by Chinese and Taiwanese vessels.



asiaone.com A study found children not eating enough fruits and vegetables in Brunei, with junk food increasingly becoming part of their diet, said a Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD) lecturer.