i too was under the impression that the honolulu air kukinis were supposed to be limited but given the number of places in sg i saw them for sale in, i assume that those got an official release from nike singapore (or is it nike s.e. asia?). during my last transit through tokyo it seemed relatively easy to find there, too, and i think i remember it being at several of the niketowns in the states.
on a related note i thought the honolulu air footscape 2s -- the floral ones -- were supposed to be limited, too, but the nike shop in melbourne was selling them as of last week... so perhaps neither one of these shoes were as limited as i thought.
i guess when i said "hot" i meant the "edgier" shoes, most retroes, that are going to end up on ebay at high prices... air force 1s, dunks, etc. at least these are the ones that i'm interested in.

sg seems to get all of the latest tech shoes -- air signatures, flightposites, shox, air max, etc. -- no problem, however.
in general it seems that the edgier shoes that sg gets are the ones that don't sell well in japan... for example, many of the initial men's ace 83 colors were brought in except for the white/grey-bone one which seems impossible to find now. or look how navy and green air zoom havens were easy to find but did the black, silver, or grey ones ever come out? (if they did, i didn't notice, but then again, i wasn't looking that hard.) or how sg got practically every permutation of the air presto fazes but relatively few of the original air prestoes. my general impression is that sg seems to get all of the sale rack fodder: the footscapes in olive, green, gold, brown; the zippered air max 95s; the various air zoom seismics...
sg does get jordans, obviously, and those seem to last a reasonable amount of time until the japanese buyers descend and snap them all up. i was quite surprised to find aj3 true blues at stadium and takashimaya in my size (us9.5) at a time when queensway was cleaned out of these.
has nike singapore ever brought in air force 1s or dunks? i think i've only ever seen one or two imported ones being sold in small shops at far east plaza... and if i remember correctly, they were relatively uninteresting colors (all black mids or something like that). i've always wondered why terminal 1 doesn't get them... or if they do, they're long gone before i get there.
speaking of which, when are those chinese new year air force 1 lows going to be released? if ever?
-eric