Posted in ASEAN, Asia, Attention, Idiocy, Indonesia, Love, Malaysia, Media, Politics, Public, Random, Singapore, Social, South East Asia, World, tagged Asia, Asian, Democracy, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, West, Western on February 21, 2008 | 4 Comments »
My class today was about Asian Journalistic Values, and those of the Western ones.
It got me thinking (putting aside Journalism) that Asian values, and the Western values are playing a social tug of war.
So far, the West has a big lead.
We were doing a list of pros, and cons for Press Freedom in Singapore.
The lecturer [...]
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Posted in Attention, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, tagged Asia, Attention, Chua Soi Lek, Hot, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Porn, Scandal, Sex, Tourism, VIY on January 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »
It has been a crazy weekend.
I thought New Year’s Eve was going to be fun, but it turned out to be just the opposite.
Rain was pouring intensely, and the police were raiding every possible bar that was out there. Everywhere my friends, and I went, there would be police at the scene.
Anyway, I have been [...]
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Posted in Asia, Attention, Pakistan, World, tagged Asia, Benazir, Bhutto, Pakistan, Rawalpindi, World on December 28, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Benazir Bhutto, may you rest in peace.
(1953 - 2007)
Hours after I arrived in Malaysia, Benazir Bhutto was assassinated.
According to FoxNews, she was shot on her neck after trying to escape the bomb blast in the town of Rawalpindi. She died at 6:16 p.m. (Pakistan’s local time), at a General Hospital.
Educated at Oxford and Harvard, [...]
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