I will be in a blissfully communication-free locale from Monday for a week. Next week sees a selection of excellent guest bloggers for your edification and reading pleasure. Enjoy.

• The curious case of Goggle's map service.
• See the world in Macau.
• The gossip and rumours* before the upcoming 5th Plenum of the CCP.
• The Cruise/Holmes foetus speaks*.
• Father Clement* - Hong Kong's oldest monk and man.
• Iceheat is a new forum site trying to replace the still-down Icered.
• Sexual revolution with Chinese characteristics*.
• The modern Confucius.
• Riots and outrage - another day in Shenzhen's property market. Meanwhile Shanghai's property bubble teeters (can bubbles teeter?)
• Free trade issues for ASEAN.
• Beware the penguin - Japan cracks the Windows.
• The subtle power of Chinese tourists. I'd say there's nothing subtle about it. Meanwhile Tibetan Lamasery goes high-tech*.
• Time puts Super Girl on the cover and stirs up a hornet's nest. But that's the point. You can understand the fuss: if the cover was "America's heroes" and had Brittney or the latest Idol winner on it, you'd never hear the end of it.
• First hand medical tourism.
• China's oil demand is pushing India and Taiwan closer*.
• Singapore's latest political dissident movie.
• North Korea's plan to expel aid workers is having wide-ranging ramifications: the only expat bar in Pyongyang may close.
• An excellent personal reflection: Legion
• (18:17) The People's Daily says the Little Red Book is selling well in Taiwan. Interestingly they miss the irony that you can sell the Little Red Book in Taiwan.
• While on official irony, the same paper reports on the internet being part of Chinese people's life. That's the official filtered and sanitised internet with Chinese characteristics version (or what I like to call Web 0.1)

• _{Starting today I will try to mark with a * any blog likely to be blocked in China.}