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<title>An Interesting Article: Thai Mores And Sexpats</title>
<link>http://www.travelfish.org/board/post/culturepolitics/21648_An-interesting-article--Thai-mores-and-sexpats/0</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 18:19:35 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ It writes about a lot more than sexpats. A lot of  interesting data about the morals of Thais and other bits and pieces. Be interested to know what people think? Especially the guys who live there. IMO there is a lot of truth in this article. What do you think?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/expatlife/9972174/The-Old-Sexpats-Club-members-and-their-young-Thai-women.html ]]></description>
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<title>Do The Neo-colonists Change A Country For The Worse</title>
<link>http://www.travelfish.org/board/post/culturepolitics/19850_Do-the-neo-colonists-change-a-country-for-the-worse/0</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 06 Oct 2012 19:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ I've noticed that many barang run businesses in Cambodia have brought higher prices and worse of all their European/N.American attitudes.
For example a Khmer business thinks nothing of a food seller peddling his/her wares in their restaurant, similarly they are happy for you to use their bathroom without buying anything.Now I see signs in  Sihanoukville  prohibiting the latter and have seen vendors 'thrown' out of Western run businesses.
The locals are happy for you to sit all day nursing one drink.Will it soon be mandatory to consume or get out?
Changing local custom, whether it be bad or good can't be right, can it? ]]></description>
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<title>Pussy Riot</title>
<link>http://www.travelfish.org/board/post/culturepolitics/19226_Pussy-Riot/0</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2012 17:29:56 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/jul/30/pussy-riot-trial-vladimir-putin

Could this lead to Putin's premature ejeculation? ]]></description>
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<title>Legal And Illegal War</title>
<link>http://www.travelfish.org/board/post/culturepolitics/19077_Legal-and-illegal-war/0</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2012 14:15:34 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ I continued this one for Chinarocks.

&amp;quot;You don't have speak some rubbish MADMAC. Your arguments are actually so wrong that it is hard to counter them because you are starting from such a crazy base. The Iraq war and 9/11 were both LEGAL - incredible stuff!!!&amp;quot;

Slow down cowboy. I did not say 9/11 was legal. 9/11 was conducted by a non-state entitity. Only states have the legal right to engage in violence for political purposes. Technically speaking, all insurgencies and revolutions are illegal wars. But only within a state context are you going to see prosecutions of same (the Bosnia example not-withstanding).

As for Iraq, please, by all means, cite for me the specific law that was broken that the US is a party to. I'm not ... ]]></description>
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<title>Adultorous Woman's Execution Cheered By Afghan Men</title>
<link>http://www.travelfish.org/board/post/culturepolitics/19026_adultorous-woman-s-execution-cheered-by-afghan-men/0</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jul 2012 11:47:39 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/9384963/22-year-old-accused-of-adultery-executed-in-Afghanistan.html
Got angry when I read this. Can't believe young Brit (and American) lads are dying out there. For what? Nothing has changed. These people are savages. ]]></description>
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<title>Desige A 3 Weeks Trip Malasyia, Singapor, Thailand</title>
<link>http://www.travelfish.org/board/post/culturepolitics/18901_desige-a-3-weeks-trip-Malasyia--Singapor--Thailand/0</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2012 23:21:48 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Me &amp;amp; my husband are planing to go for the first time to visit Malasyia, Singapor &amp;amp; Thailand.. We have already bought our airline ticket and we will arrive to  Kuala Lumpur  at 31 of August 2012. Our departing fly home is 22 of August
So, our trip will start and will and at KL.
We think to organise our staying like this:
1. Kuala Lumpur - 4 nights
2.  Penang  Â &amp;amp; Langkawi - 3 nights
3. Melacca - one night
4. Singapore - 2 nights
fly to Bangkok
5. Bangkok - 2 nights/ three days
fly to  Phuket
6. Phuket - 4 nights
fly to KL
7 KL Â one or two nights
Back home

Can anybody Â help us to better designe this intenerary, in a more conviniet way?Â 
Do you think I need to book (buy) in advance the airline ticket for AIRASIA to fly to ... ]]></description>
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<title>Prominent Environmentalist Shot By Military In Koh Kong</title>
<link>http://www.travelfish.org/board/post/culturepolitics/18366_Prominent-environmentalist-shot-by-military-in-Koh-Kong/0</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 03:14:28 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[  
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012042655803/National-news/environmental-activist-chut-wutty-shot-dead.html

This one will take a lot of explaining,this guy has been instrumental in exposing military involvement in illegal logging'
The quote below comes from the article and is mind-boggling!!
What was he driving an armoured car!
'He alleged that In Rattana threatened to shoot a defiant Chut Wutty and opened fire with an AK-47 when he attempted to drive his car away, but was also killed when a bullet ricocheted off the vehicle.' ]]></description>
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<title>Khmers Losing Their Cool</title>
<link>http://www.travelfish.org/board/post/culturepolitics/17307_Khmers-losing-their-cool/0</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 21:37:48 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Coming back on the Sorya bus 1.10 p.m. on Saturday the bus suddenly hurled to the left and then back onto the right side.Three boys on a motorbike had just pulled off the dirt at the side of the road diagonally and straight into the path of the bus.The driver completely lost his cool and pulling to the side of the moving motor began a long and very rude invective aimed at them.One of them must have said something back as he told the conductor to fetch an ugly, long iron bar.It was clearly the intention of the boy to take a swing at the riders with an iron bar FFS!!! It was only the wailing of the Khmer passengers and the distraught shouts of 'no' which made him hesitate thankfully as he would have broken someone's back.
Has anybody else ... ]]></description>
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<title>Lao And Cambodian Music</title>
<link>http://www.travelfish.org/board/post/culturepolitics/17045_Lao-and-Cambodian-music/0</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 04:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Hi! I'm travelling to Laos and Cambodia in a couple of weeks and would like to listen and maybe even learn some popular local songs to get to the mood and learn the language better.
I've found some on Youtube, but would like to hear suggestions from people who actually live there or have been there, so if you could help me, I'd be grateful! ]]></description>
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<title>Respecting Local Sensibilities. Why Should I When They Have No Respect For Me.</title>
<link>http://www.travelfish.org/board/post/culturepolitics/17027_Respecting-local-sensibilities--why-should-i-when-they-have-no-respect-for-me-/0</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 12:22:42 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ went in to buy a very ordinary plug for my pc.The girl didn't even look at the old part which I held out for her to examine.Just kept on chatting to her colleaues ( small shop but there were 4 of the lazy cows working there) didn't even look at me.Just said curtely.
'we don' have.'
How do you know if you haven't looked.' I replied
She totally ignored me.
This isn't the forst time this has hapenned. I believe it's endemic in Cambodia.

Went into the Post Office, 6 of them sitting there doing the usual Cambodian thing of staring off into space.
Excuse me, Can you help me.
Not even a reply just a hand pointed at one harrased girl serving a long queue.
usually they are so over-staffed too.yesterday I went in a small bakey which sells only ... ]]></description>
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<title>North Korea As A Tourist Destination</title>
<link>http://www.travelfish.org/board/post/culturepolitics/16993_North-Korea-as-a-tourist-destination/0</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 22:26:22 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ With a new sucession announced it doesn't look like North Korea will be suddenly openning its doors to backpackers.
Has anybody had a hankering for exploring this 'Socialist paradise'? ]]></description>
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<title>Risk For Woman Abuse (VN) When To Interfere???</title>
<link>http://www.travelfish.org/board/post/culturepolitics/16730_Risk-for-woman-abuse--VN--when-to-interfere---/0</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ A few days ago the following happened in Hanoi, and I honestly do not know if our action helped the women or did it make it all worse?

As background I had been reading the Vietnam Views Opinion site, and their next weeks question regarding women abuses (mostly inside marriage). Later same evening we were going home, buy some of the narrow streets, it was dark, but not late, around 6-7pm. In one of the darke spot in the narrow lane, we see a young man and women having an argue, or are they fighting??? We passes, but stops after a couple of meters, turn around to ensure the women/girl is not hit. As we are looking, the girl starts running away, and the young man follows. But we put out our arms (i.e. my 100kg 1.95cm husband did so) and ... ]]></description>
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<title>Tired Of South-East Asia? Try This.</title>
<link>http://www.travelfish.org/board/post/culturepolitics/16311_Tired-of-South-East-Asia--try-this-/0</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2011 03:42:14 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Didn't know which section to put this but I felt, as someone who comes from Wales, that it should be seen by more people.
Wales, the only country in the world that you can walk unimpeded around its own borders including an incredibly beautiful coastline.
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2011/10/28/welcome-to-wales-coastline-the-greatest-region-on-earth-in-2012-91466-29675500/ ]]></description>
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<title>Are European Values Better Than American?</title>
<link>http://www.travelfish.org/board/post/culturepolitics/16233_Are-european-values-better-than-American-/0</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 09:31:35 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ In order to get off the Laos thread I'll start the ball rolling here by bringing up the American entertainment industry.

America produces fine series like 'Boardwalk Empire' and 'The Wire' but why do they have to steal our history and our ideas?

I'll give two examples.

During WWII. H.M.S Bulldog captured the first Enigma coding machine from U110.
Not according to Hollywood it was captured from U571 by an American ship.
Surely America has enough history of gallantry without stealing ours.

In the 1990's The Dutch produced a fine psychological thriller called 'The Vanishing' the ending is horrific. The boyfriend, who has been searching for his girlfriend for months, meets the kidnapper who offers to show him what happened.First he must ... ]]></description>
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<title>Interesting Article</title>
<link>http://www.travelfish.org/board/post/culturepolitics/15985_Interesting-Article/0</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 01:03:36 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Interesting article about an event that happened at a Thai school.


[url=]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2042097/Student-Nazi-dress-day-causes-outrage-Thailand.html#comments[/url] ]]></description>
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<title>The World's Longest Running Civil War Is In Myanmar</title>
<link>http://www.travelfish.org/board/post/culturepolitics/15538_The-world-s-longest-running-civil-war-is-in-Myanmar/0</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2011 08:25:10 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Karen Rebels have been fighting the Burmese government for over 60 years, making it the world's longest ongoing civil war. Al Jazeera recently broadcast this interesting documentary which gives an update on the situation. The fighting has escalated considerably since the elections in November 2010 and the release of Aung San Suu Kyi but in spite of this the Thai government is still planning to start forcibly repatriating Karen refugees next year.


http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/101east/2011/08/201181073919760492.html ]]></description>
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<title>It Could Only Happen In Thailand</title>
<link>http://www.travelfish.org/board/post/culturepolitics/15432_It-could-only-happen-in-Thailand/0</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 18:11:26 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Just saw a channel 4 report here in the UK about a guy called Chewit whose been elected to the Thai parliarment on an anti-corruption ticket despite the fact that he is a brothel owner who admits to paying huge amounts of bribes to the police.Thai politics is becoming farcical. ]]></description>
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<title>I Didn't Realize That Bomb Making...</title>
<link>http://www.travelfish.org/board/post/culturepolitics/15197_I-didn-t-realize-that-bomb-making---/0</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ ... was part of the Islamic school curiculum.

http://news.yahoo.com/explosion-islamic-school-indonesia-kills-1-071943390.html ]]></description>
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<title>Well Done U.S.A</title>
<link>http://www.travelfish.org/board/post/culturepolitics/14430_Well-done-U-S-A/0</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 06:06:33 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Well done U.S.A on your short trip to Pakistan. ]]></description>
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<title>To Dress RomanceAround ,to Be His Bride!</title>
<link>http://www.travelfish.org/board/post/culturepolitics/14067_To-dress-RomanceAround--to-be-his-bride-/0</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 06:26:22 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ If you wana the cheapest wedding, also request the highest quality , there is best
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If you can’t find your party dream dress now , please come to us, come there to pick
your dream prom dress! ]]></description>
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