Is it down for anyone else? I tried to check if my last payment have been sent and it give me a fatal error message.

I have been able to log into the website once on 3 try, but the web page was all broken.

They block my account every so often when I log in from places that you're apparently not meant to log in from... Colombia, Croatia, Mozambique, Namibia.... can be a real pain!

For my part, it's resolved. It came back by itself as it usually do.

@Holgs @FD-regular it is good to knwo. No problems from here (Malaysia) yet...
What about Thailand? I guess Indonesia is on the black list as well.

Malaysia and Thailand, of what I heard, are way out that league. To start, connections from Thailand and Malaysia are blazing fast and they do well in business too. Any economy doing well in global business will avoid financial insecurity. In my part of the (Southern) Philippines, unemployment is around 60%, add underemployment and it's 90%. Go out in a mall or in the city on a weekday in daytime and it's full of young people hanging around. Some of them have respectable degrees in IT. They will move abroad sooner or later, but what do you think they do in the mean period? Not writing church software.  

You can rely in general on the surveys of transparency.org, and their surveys here.
Take the BPI (bribe payers index) for instance, or the CPI (corruption perception index) for Asia-Pacific 2009 (PDF) here.
At the top are NZ and SG (score 9.4 and 9.2, global rank 1 and 3), Malaysia and Thailand are well in top tier with 4.5 and 3.4 (global rank 56 and 84), Indonesia is much lower with 2.8 and global rank 111 but the Philippines are, amongst the large and democratic nations, the lowest with 2.4, global rank 139.

Malaysia is a great place with still much of the rain forest intact. In the Philippines, the 5% (down from 60% 50 years ago) left is still illegaly logged by you-know-who. Don't try to expose it or this will happen. He was the third in 5 days. In time, I'll probably move to Malaysia too. Nuf said...

Is a software like ultrasurf can help?

All I can say is I had a locally brewed virus end last year that went undetected by Norton and AVGfree. I kept the code (VBS) and it's a small marvel. He added a cellphone number so you could txt him a small fee for "consultancy" and get rid of it (simcards are not registered). I only trust in periodic hard-format.

Tired of having my Paypal account blocked when logging from abroad... Is moneybookers less a pain in the ass?

Thanks for your reply, good to know they can put exceptions:)  will see how it goes....

What a pain... yes they do track IP adress and don't like when you login from multiples IP. Use of proxys are forbidden so maybe a program like logmein is the solution?

Thanks FD-amateur for the reply, what do you think about programs like logmein? At least the IP remains the same...

Thanks FD-amateur for the reply, what do you think about programs like logmein? At least the IP remains the same...

Never heard of it. In a way I can understand PayPal for the multiple IP login. Security got much tighter everywhere, not to mention the very strict anti-money laundring laws, at least in the West.
If logmein is a remote service that logs you in under another IP, they can intercept all your traffic. What if they are not secure? I just never log in to my Paypal east of Berlin any more. To end the story: I paid my landlord in the good old fashioned inter-bank way by SWIFT. With all these exotic payment services online, we often forget the "good old" banks.

an out of topic questions, is paypal the cheapest way to get money from microstock to asia countries?

After 30% of US sales tax and currency conversion in paypal.. the earnings are less..

ok problem solved by phone, online is pretty useless.. It is advisable to call tham or let them know what countries u are travelling to, to avoid being blocked. They send also a keycode card by post to login securitly don t have it yet  though...