Now on my fourth country in 24 hours and I'm knackered! Dinner in Hong Kong last night, two hours sleep in Singapore, lunch in Kuala Lumpur and hopefully a cold beer any minute now in Bangkok. Not very glamourous as I sweat my way round Asia!
So what are the big issues here in Asia? Well they are certainly more sanguine about the recession than us Europeans and Americans. One example comes from today's edition of The Straits Times, one of the Singapore's leading newspapers. The letters page was full of bile and venom - but not about the recession, the credit crunch, British MP's ripping off the taxpayer and Sarah Palin's upcoming biography. No the top two letters addressed the real issues of the day. First we had a scathing attack on public servants under the headline, "Bus drivers should brake more gently" and then we had a brutal discourse on modern youth under the headline "Library visits ruined by unruly students."
Isn't it nice to see that some countries still focus on the real issues of the day?
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