Thank you to everyone who responded to my plea for feedback and guest bloggers. The feedback has been invaluable and will be incorporated in the weeks to come. For those who offered to guest blog I have or will be in touch with details.

Now on with the linklets:

• Gordon asks if China is losing its identity?
• Animals not to breastfeed, part 2. Seriously this "breast is best" campaign is getting out of control.
• Jonathan Dresner is hosting the History Carnival this week.
• Online dating rituals in East Asia.
• Voice of America is moving some operations to Hong Kong, despite some idiotic union concerns.
• Could hostilities between Japan and American ended sooner in WW2?
• Singapore barred an Amnesty reseacher from talking about the death penalty in a public forum. Why was he barred?

  "Singapore has one of the most fair and transparent legal systems in the world. We do not require a foreigner to tell Singapore and Singaporeans how our criminal justice system should function,'' a Home Affairs Ministry spokeswoman said on customary condition of anonymity on Sunday.

  "Customary" indeed. No word if she was laughing as she said it. It is true Singapore's legal system is amongst the best in a region that contains Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Cambodia, Malaysia, China and others. It says a lot about the region's legal system.
• (13:14) China's top 10 works of nonfiction as of January 2005.
• It's a GM battle royale: Beijing vs. Greenpeace. Even the Amish use GM crops.
• Love in the big city: a guy, his girlfriend and 2,300 Hong Kong ID appointments.
• Could an anti-trust law finally be on the way for Hong Kong? It won't be before The Don assumes his throne but would he have the nerve to face down the tycoons when he only has a 2 year term?
• (16:55) Travel to North Korea without leaving your computer.
• Casinos are coming to Singapore: Caleb and Idler have thoughts.
• Japan: the schizophrenic superpower. Howard French on the watershed in Japan's assertiveness in geopolitics.
• Is NTSCMP dead?