• A Babe in Toyland...welcome to Hong Kong (while only words, they are completely NSFW and NSFSU*. Via Spike).
• The reporting notes of a Xinhua reporter's dealings with a Nanjing official.
• Creativity in Hong Kong and Singapore.
• Korea's golf secrets exposed!
• Beijing and Taiwan trade overtures while America gets tough with Taiwan.
• Taiwan's parliament again becomes a boxing ring. David explains why.
• The Himalayan buffer states.
• The EIU on China's media crackdown and reccent policy changes (via CDT).
• Dan wonders if Asian bloggers are too trusting of each other and Gordon weighs in on the brotherhood of bloggers.
• Mutantfrog warns of the long-term consequences of watching panda sex.
• Singapore's Straits Times runs a piece saying blogs are worse than porn.
• The cynical traveller goes to school sports day.
• The great kimchi scare of 2005.
• Best goldfish joke ever.
• (18:10) Here's a shock: corruption threatens China's economy.
• Zenpundit rounds up thoughts on China's asymmetric military strategy.

_{NSFSU: Not safe for standing up.}