In Asia: It's All About Perception

What's the most commonly smuggled item into Korea? Well it isn't fake high end luxury items that's for sure.  Fake erectile dysfunction pills.  

  The erectile dysfunction drug Viagra tops the list of goods being smuggled into Korea.
They included some 19.22 million fake Viagra pills. The same amount of the genuine article would cost W207.6 billion. 
The next most-commonly smuggled product was another erectile dysfunction drug, Cialis, followed by 3M products and yet another erectile dysfunction drug, Levitra.

Where one's priorities lie (pun intended)


Politicians clean up the streets.

Municipal Corporation sanitation workers’ strike enters day five.

Delhi Ministers and Aam Aadmi Party MLAs along with party men armed with brooms cleaned the streets on Sunday even as the Municipal Corporation sanitation workers’ strike entered day five. A sanitation drive was launched in all the AAP constituencies and garbage was removed.

The sanitation workers on their part continued with their strike and the vociferous protestors has warned the AAP government that if their demands, which includes clearing their dues and regularisation, aren’t looked into, the garbage situation in the city is likely to ‘deteriorate’ in the coming days.

Finally a useful activity for an elected official. They're actually cleaning something up.

I took no money from the people who gave me money

Japanese Economy Minister Akira Amari resigned abruptly on Thursday to take responsibility for a political funding scandal that has rocked the government, but denied having taken bribes.
The resignation of Amari, who has spear-headed Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s economic policies, could pose a setback to the administration’s Abenomics growth plan aimed at driving Japan out of deflation, analysts said.
But the government moved swiftly to contain the fallout by appointing Nobuteru Ishihara, a former environment minister and secretary-general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, as his replacement.

He will investigate his own wrong doing and find himself innocent. And feel good about it.

Built to look like the Pentagon meant to be a shopping mall

Chinese ghost towns are a well documented phenomenon - completely built up cities with very few people living in them.
But the Pentagonal Mart has now gained the dubious title of Shanghai's largest empty building.
This shopping mall in Shanghai was built in 2009 - inspired by the Pentagon in the United States.
But despite its massive size - 500,000 sq m - there are very few shoppers in sight.

But now, like the Pentagon it's nothing more than wasted space