I'll be travelling to a potentially coup-ridden South East Asian archipelago on Monday. Civil strife permitting posting should resume on Tuesday afternoon.

The weekly summary of my most popular links...

1. Sarong Party Girl. Not surprising given the fuss. Like in days of old, I only read her site for the posts...and she's a damn good writer.

2. Sarong Party Frens. Lesson - having 'Sarong' and 'Party' in your blog name works.

3. Xiaxue. Singapore's top blogger with her top on.

4. Flying Chair. Related to the Kissel case coverage, I suspect.

5. ESWN's Kissel case coverage.

6. Pundita. You can keep following the fascinating China and Bush Doctrine discussion, summarised and linked via Pundita does China. The latest instalment, Clairol joins with the barbarian hordes plotting China's overthrow, has an interesting perspective on the relationship between China's peasantry and government. If you want to understand Bush administration thinking on China and the world, read it.

7. SPG takes her gear off. Once again proving sex sells.

8. The excellent Jamestown Foundation's China Brief.

9. Wife swapping in Guangdong.

10. Beer and women.

I'm starting to detect a pattern here...