The highlights this week: Back-to-back typhoons once again batter the region, an Indonesian school is attacked, a controversial rapper is caught up in a Malaysian murder investigation , and Southeast Asia contemplates nuclear power .

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The highlights this week: Back-to-back typhoons once again batter the region, an Indonesian school is attacked, a controversial rapper is caught up in a Malaysian murder investigation, and Southeast Asia contemplates nuclear power.

On Monday came the late-breaking news that Thailand was suspending implementation of the deal it signed with Cambodia last month. This was the agreement that U.S. President Donald Trump presided over and concerns a border dispute between the two countries. Thailand’s announcement came after its soldiers were injured in a land mine explosion near the Cambodian border, a Thai spokesperson said. Cambodia has said it remains committed to the agreement.

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Super Typhoon Fung-Wong Batters the Philippines

It almost seems as though the Philippines is cursed. At time of writing, Super Typhoon Fung-wong is battering the country’s most populous island, Luzon. About a million people have been evacuated, and at least eight have been killed.

The storm arrived just days after the devastating Typhoon Kalmaegi. The death toll from that event stands at 229, with at least 224 deaths in the Philippines and five in Vietnam. And this is just the latest in a series of storms that have relentlessly pummeled the country—and the wider region.

The latest storms occurred unusually late