Simon, congrats on your trip! Thanks for the updates on Indochine and Nancy Kissel. I'd love to hear your impressions of Cambodia. It and Burma have to be the least-heard-from nations from South East Asia in the American press. How fares the Kingdom?

I'll keep blogging until Monday, but all are relieved that the Maestro has returned. :)

Japan: A new, professional Japanese bj league. Yeah! It's baseball. Booo!

Toyota will try to break into the Japanese auto market. Let's wish one of America's biggest car companies well!

Korea: Always pleasant news of North Korean death camps. And underground nuclear factories. Fun.

China: Unclothed nonviolent resistance hits Beijing. So does corporate dishonesty.

The American Lower House Minority Leader argues that Bush is soft on China

More Babe Socialism. This time in bikinis.

South East Asia: Questionable morals in Thailand.

South Asia: India considers classifying bloggers as "journalists."

South West Asia: Collounsbury on "this benighted land of capricious rent seeking risk avoiding tijaari sit in their *censored* shop and wait for business, look at the near time horizon risk culture." Sounds like he's been spending too much time in Pierre, South Dakota.

Meanwhile, the self-promoting tdaxp looks at the ethics of humiliating Iraqi insurgents.

Three cheers for Simon's successful trip! Hip-hip hurrah! Hip-hip hurrah! Hip-hip hurrah!