This newsletter issue takes you on a four-country journey in the region, bringing insights and discussions from and around Myanmar, the Philippines, Vietnam and Cambodia.From Myanmar, we talk about the precarious life of the Rohingya – the largest stateless population in the world – in what is the world's largest refugee camp, in Bangladesh. The rainy season, meantime, brings a Myanmar writer back to the time he was picked up by intelligence agents of a previous junta two decades ago.Our sustainability set looks into the use of electric cars that's picking up in Vietnam. A Cambodia piece on the country's world-heritage applications is here, as part of a publishing partnership with Southeast Asia Globe and the Pulitzer Center.From the Philippines comes reflections about clashing social memories and the different faces of trauma as it marked the 50th anniversary of the declaration of martial law in September – insights that will be useful to many other countries and peoples.Take a look too at the work of two senior-year journalism students (Aerielle and Meg) from the University of the Philippines, who are interns with Reporting ASEAN and Probe Media Foundation Inc.Keep well in these rainy times (in Thailand we're wading through a wet season that's expected to be longer, with heavier rains, till November – a new normal?)JohannaEditor/founder - Reporting ASEAN (reportingaseandesk@fastmail.net)BangkokCOMING SOON : Our tool for reporting on sustainability issues!