It's been a rainy old weekend in Bangkok. Just about perfect for staying inside and updating my bits of the Asian Business Strategy and Street Intelligence Ezine. Best news for a long time is the launch of the new and improved Google's news service. If you are used to getting the latest news from the US dominated news websites or Reuters/AP, try the far more international and faster loading Google News.

Even better news is that Google is indexing our own news and specifically our Asian Market Research News. So you can get us on Google news now too along with the rest of the scallywags.

Spend a while browsing around. If this is not the finest news service on the Web, II'd bite my tail...