Luna Maya, a Balinese beauty, who says it isn’t really her in this year’s scandalous sex tape from Indonesia.

As promised, we are marking the official launch of summer in this northern land of lakes and forests – and too much unfortunate flooding in two prairie provinces – with an update on the 2008 naughty pictures of born-in-Canada Chinese entertainer Edison Chen: and a parallel report on the alleged naughty videos of the Edison Chen of 2010 – the Indonesian pop singer Nazril Irham, better known as Ariel (or even Ariel Peterpan).

See “June in Jakarta 2010 .. or Edison Chen’s naughty pictures part deux, with Ariel, Luna Maya, and Cut Tari, on the world wide web ..” by our irrepressible resident humourist and sports reporter, Dominic Berry – under the Countries of the World category to the right of this page. Or just CLICK HERE.

Meanwhile, if you also yearn for something at once both more serious and more strictly Canadian, and haven’t already explored our new link with “Democratic reform in Canada,” you could TRY THAT TOO.

And meanwhile again, we are closing the office here for the first four days of the good old summertime, to facilitate visits to various old countryside homelands by assorted staff. Everyone will be back to cover the (?almost obscenely expensive?) G20 in Toronto, however. And we will be presenting an exhaustive report of some sort on all this, sometime next week. For now, our very best wishes for at least a few stolen moments of relaxation in the summer of 2010.