The Mrs and I are heading for a week long, kid free holiday in deepest Indochina. The guest blogging duties will be taken up by the same excellent crew as last time. But before I go, a final few links for the week...

• A case study in media ethics.
• Phil looks at Hong Kong's next big concrete elephant. Given the 40,000 seat stadium in Causeway Bay is full for exactly 3 days a year, it's hard to see why Hong Kong needs a 70,000 seat stadium at Kai Tak.
• Drug addicts: register with the cops or you'll be forced to register.
• Superheroes and their skimpy outfits.
• How to read Japanese newspapers.
• One kid's reaction to the first McDonald's drive through in China.
• Only half of China can speak Mandarin.
• Hong Kong kids get a taste of conscription to make them more patriotic. They could learn from their South Korean friends.
• The impact of China's plan to sell its state owned interests in the stock market.
• Todd Crowell on waiting for the renminbi and North Korea.
• Even America is guilty of distorting the past in its textbooks.
• Lest you think the outsourcing of call centres to India was only a English language phenomena, think again.
• Jakartass visits a sick former Indonesian President.
• Could you do the 100 metre desh in less than 35 seconds....when you're 105 years old?
• The growing focus on China's environment.
• Japanese women's rights.
• New (to me) Hong Kong blog: Milton J. Madison.
• The origins of "pundit".
• Completely NSWF: bust pudding.
• If you have a pulse, this will make you laugh: they had trouble with Larry LaPrise's funeral.
• There will be no RMB revaluation on May 18, says the head of China's central bank. He should know.
• It's Friday the 13th (the fear is paraskevidekatriaphobia)...and today China's revealed its next element to gain control over Taiwan: they're going to tunnel their way there.