Thai authorities said on August 18 they were looking for a suspect seen on closed-circuit television (CCTV) footage near a popular shrine where a bomb blast killed 22 people, nearly half of them foreigners.

Singaporean parliament on August 17 passed a bill allowing the country to become a founding member of the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB).

Search and rescue teams have accounted for all 54 bodies of passengers on flight Trigana IL-257, according to information released by the Indonesian Ministry of Transport. 

One of two rescue helicopters on August 17 spotted debris suspected to be from flight Trigana IL-257 that went missing around the Oksop waterfall in the eastern Indonesian province of Papua, about 11 kilometres from its destination, Oksibil district. 

A bomb blast at a popular shrine in Bangkok that killed 22 people including eight foreigners did not match the tactics used by separatist rebels in southern Thailand, the country's army chief said on August 18.

The White House is seeking an agreement with Cuba to begin scheduled commercial flights between the two countries as soon as December, the Wall Street Journal reported on August 17, citing officials.

An aircraft with 54 people on board crashed in Indonesia's remote and mountainous region of Papua on August 16, a government official said, the latest in a string of aviation disasters in the Southeast Asian nation.

Greece's socialist PASOK party joined the main opposition on August 16 in saying it would not back Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras if he calls a confidence vote following a rebellion in the governing party over a new bailout deal.

The permanent representative missions to the United Nations (UN) of 10 countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) celebrated “ASEAN Family Day” in New York on August 16.

At least 40 migrants died after apparently getting trapped and suffocating in the water-logged hold of a fishing boat in the Mediterranean, the Italian navy said on August 15.