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However, most people in this region were quietly bemused by the goings-on. In a region where many men can have 4 wives, where the media, in general could never follow up allegations of this type, and where in many cultures it is socially acceptable to have "mini-wives" or a mistress on the side, the reaction was hardly surprising.

In the Roman Catholic influenced country of the Philippines, Erap Estrada has already lost count of the number of offspring he has spawned; in Malaysia, extra-marital affairs of often Muslim political figures (and Dato's at that..) affairs are covered up nice and snugly; in Indonesia former President Sokoerno was a well know man-about-town, and the Japanese just seem to turn a blind eye to the geisha going-ons in the land of the rising sun... Down under, (if you will excuse the expression), respected former PM Bob Hawke carried out a long term affair with his biographer, effectively knocking off two birds with the same stone so to speak...

Clinton muses about how he will be remembered in the US. Undoubtedly he will be remembered less so for the fact that he couldn't keep his pecker under control, and more so for the fact that unlike some of his predecessors with similar predilictions, he actually got caught...

Meanwhile in our own part of the world a sector of Bangkok's property developers are busy constructing their own monument and legacy to Bill Clinton already according to friends of the Rat in the kingdom.

Presently under erection a ping-pong balls throw away from the notorious Thermae, "Clinton Plaza" is quickly taking shape in the trendy sector of Sukumvit.

It's not yet another office and retail development. No surprise to Newsweek of course, but "Clinton Plaza" is a collection of hostess lounges and girlie bars...

Such is the, admittedly premature, Clinton legacy in Bangkok....