Are you ready for OREC?

Thailand, the world's biggest exporter of rice is pushing hard for the creation of a cartel to control the price and supply of the one of the world's most important staples. And remember if your shopping at Sam's Club it's only four bags per person!

Not the Happy Pizza!

We must do something. Cambodia's Happy Pizza is under threat and we cannot stand idly by whilst this perpetual motion machine (eat pizza laced with pot - get munchies - eat more pizza laced with pot - repeat) is driven off the culinary map.

Note: remind me to tell you about the time I got trapped in my mate's house whilst his parents were away and we had nothing to eat but hash brownie.

R.I.P.

Dith Pran, a journalist whose life in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge was dramatised in "The Killing Fields", has died of cancer at the age of 65.

Could Gordon Ramsey be our next f***ing Prime Minister?

Well if Thailand can elect a celebrity chef as premier I don't see why we shouldn't as well.

Today in infamy - whose side were we on again? edition

Twenty nine years ago today the brave government of Pol Pot in Kampuchea/Cambodia fell to those nasty Vietnamese communists. It later turned out that Pol Pot was a nasty piece of work but at the time...

Is that a vote in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?

Parties in Thailand stand accused of handing out Viagra in exchange for votes in the upcoming (pun not intended) election. A happy electorate is a docile electorate.

Business comes first

Meanwhile, in that beacon of freedom in South East Asia that is Singapore, protests against the vile and abusive military junta in Myanmar/Burma are forbidden during the ASEAN summit that is being held there. But at least the country's Prime Minister, Lee Hsien Loong, is keeping an open mind on the subject. He is quoted as saying that nobody in Asia wants sanctions against Burma's government.

Inside Burma/Myanmar

Have a look for yourself.

Shareholder value! Shareholder value!

So where does the Burmese junta get the money to keep on going despite sanctions and global disapproval. Pick an oil company. Go on. Pick one!

A case for intervention

What do you suppose would happen in Myanmar, which our President believes to called Burma, if the United States and the west told the junta "stop killing your people" or our military will be there in about six weeks time, they will kick your arse and deliver you to the ICC for trial? After all these are people, unlike the Iraqis before the illegal invasion and occupation, who are clearly demonstrating their desire for the removal of their undemocratic, illegal and repressive regime. I also hear that there are many lovely flowers in Myanmar.

Oh, wait a second. They haven't any oil. I'm just being silly.