The 41-year old Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) has come of age. The ASEAN summit now on in Hua Hin, Thailand is being held for the first time under the ASEAN Charter which was finally ratified last December by the last two members of the 10-nation association.

Bangladeshi soldiers recovered 10 bodies in a second mass grave in a military compound in the capital today, bringing to 76 the death toll from an armed mutiny staged by border guards over pay.