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Postby sidney » Mon Sep 08, 2008 8:25 pm

When i went taipei, i noted the prostitutues looked old... Now my observation is comfirmed. However, there still many pimps around, cos i was approached by a gui gong in the busy junctions of Xi Men Ding. My hostel lord told me taiwanese ppl matured at early age and teenage sex is norm. Therefore pertaining to sex, they are quite liberal compared to S'pore
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Postby winston » Mon Sep 08, 2008 9:30 pm

Indian schools shut as dogs go on rampage

Authorities in eastern India on Monday ordered more than a dozen schools to close after scores of people were attacked by street dogs, an official said.

The incidents were reported over the past two days after a pack of dogs entered the small town of Bamra in coastal Orissa state.

''We have ordered all 14 schools in Bamra to be closed till Wednesday as a precautionary measure amid the growing stray dog menace,'' the town's chief administrator Bibhuti Bhusan Behera said.

He said 62 people had been given anti-rabies treatment after being bitten, but gave no further details.

The dogs would be captured and released outside the town, Behera said.

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Postby kennynah » Mon Sep 08, 2008 9:32 pm

sidney wrote:When i went taipei, i noted the prostitutues looked old... Now my observation is comfirmed. However, there still many pimps around, cos i was approached by a gui gong in the busy junctions of Xi Men Ding. My hostel lord told me taiwanese ppl matured at early age and teenage sex is norm. Therefore pertaining to sex, they are quite liberal compared to S'pore


so.....u had a swell time ?
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Postby sidney » Tue Sep 09, 2008 12:27 am

I perfer clothes on all the time. lol. Apart the whole enjoyable trip, the gui gong leaves a deep impression on me. Cos he looked like one. lol. I hope to revisit taipei in 2, 3 years again
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Postby ishak » Thu Sep 11, 2008 1:10 am

Every cigarette to bear "SDPC" marking from Jan 1 next year
CNA, 10 Sep 2008

From 1 January 2009, all duty-paid cigarettes sold in Singapore will be marked with the letters "SDPC" to distinguish them from contraband cigarettes.

The letters "SDPC" stand for Singapore Duty-Paid Cigarette, and it is proof that the cigarette is legal.

This new requirement is part of Singapore Customs' effort to curb the selling and buying of illegal cigarettes.

According to Singapore Customs, Singapore is the first country to implement this regulation.

From January next year, all unmarked cigarettes would be deemed duty-unpaid and illegal.

Anyone found buying, selling or smoking cigarettes without the "SDPC" marking could be jailed or fined. For every packet of duty-unpaid cigarettes, the offender can be fined S$500.

Licensed retailers will start selling marked cigarettes from October. The Tobacco Association (Singapore) said the current stock of unmarked duty-paid cigarettes will not be recalled.

Fong Yong Kian, director-general, Singapore Customs, said: "We will be working together with the cigarette industry to phase out all the old cigarette stocks by January 1 next year. When our officers encounter cigarettes without the SDPC marking from January 1 next year, we will investigate it to check the origin of the cigarette.

"Our assessment is that it is unlikely that the SDPC markings will be counterfeited. This assessment is also shared by the industry. But nonetheless, we will be monitoring the situation very closely."

According to Singapore Customs, cigarette manufacturers were informed of this new marking requirement in April this year.

Those who buy their cigarettes from overseas for their own consumption should keep their receipts as proof of payment of duty and GST.

According to the Tobacco Association (Singapore), contraband cigarettes constitute 18 per cent of market share in Singapore.

It expects the new regulation to increase demand for duty-paid cigarettes, which would help offset the cost of marking every cigarette.


It expects the new regulation to increase demand for duty-paid cigarettes, which would help offset the cost of marking every cigarette.

And the authorities allow/want the demand to increase?
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Postby blid2def » Thu Sep 11, 2008 1:40 am

It expects the new regulation to increase demand for duty-paid cigarettes, which would help offset the cost of marking every cigarette.

And the authorities allow/want the demand to increase?


I think it means an increase through the erosion of the contraband cigarettes' market share.
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Postby millionairemind » Thu Sep 18, 2008 8:09 am

If you watch The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, you will know that he likes to poke fun of teachers have sex with their students... machiam one flew all the way to Australia for it from the US...??? :?

Sep 16, 2008
Woman had sex with boy

SYDNEY - A MARRIED mother of three from the United States was convicted in an Australian court Tuesday of having underage sex with a 15-year-old boy she met on the Internet.

The Bendigo county court in Victoria state heard that Barbara Case, 33, flew to Australia from her hometown of Lyndhurst, Virginia, in May and spent 10 days with the boy in a holiday park cabin before being arrested.

She admitted having sexual intercourse with a child under the age of 16 and was sentenced to 16 months in jail, suspended for two years on condition she does not commit a similar offence.

Case, who spent more than three months in custody after her arrest, wept when she realised she would be allowed to walk free immediately and return to her family in the US as soon as possible.

The court heard Case met the boy through an online game called Runescape on Christmas Day last year.

'You knew he was 15, and you corresponded regularly,' judge Tim Wood told her during sentencing.

'You understand your conduct was inexcusable and morally wrong.'

The judge noted that Case had been suicidal and suffered from postnatal depression after the birth of her third child in 1999 and said she was unlikely to re-offend.

She was arrested after the boy's parents became concerned and contacted police.

Case told reporters outside the court she had missed her children.

'She wants to put it all behind her now,' said her lawyer, Megan Aumair.

Case has been placed on a sex offenders register for life. -- AFP
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Postby millionairemind » Thu Sep 18, 2008 8:13 am

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Anti-porn bill protested

More than 5,000 protesters occupied the lawn of the local parliament to oppose the bill, which is under deliberation by mostly Muslim lawmakers in the capital Jakarta.

DENPASAR - THOUSANDS of Balinese in traditional outfits rallied on the Indonesian holiday island on Wednesday against an anti-pornography bill derided by critics as a threat to local cultures.
More than 5,000 protesters occupied the lawn of the local parliament on the mostly Hindu island to oppose the bill, which is under deliberation by mostly Muslim lawmakers in the capital Jakarta.

The bill, which could be passed in a matter of weeks, criminalises all public acts and material capable of raising sexual desires or violating 'community morality'.
Protesters denounced the proposed law as too broad and a threat to local customs on the island, where naked temple statues proliferate and skimpily dressed foreign tourists unwind on famous beaches.

Demonstrators turned up to the rally in traditional clothes including semi-translucent temple blouses, saying such clothes could be deemed too suggestive if the law was passed.

'Balinese and other ethnic groups have a different view on what sexual orpornographic materials are,' local intellectual Mr Wayan Sayoga said.

'We can view nudity without being trapped by lust because we look at it from an aesthetical perspective,' he said.

Protesters put on traditional dances and one activist read out a poem that repeated the word 'genital' to prove the mention of sex would not send the crowd into fits of lust.

'The government should never forget that Indonesia is a country based on non-discrimination over race, religion and ethnicity,' acitivist Luh Anggraeni said.

'This porn bill is a serious threat to the country's unity since it disrespects the perspective of others on many things.'

The bill, which is being pushed by Muslim parties in Jakarta, is being challenged on other islands in the archipelago nation which encompasses cultures ranging from conservative Islam to semi-naked animist tribesmen.

Although it is the world's largest Muslim-majority country, Indonesia has significant and officially recognised minorities of Christians, Hindus, Buddhists and Confucians. -- AFP
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Postby iam802 » Thu Sep 18, 2008 12:32 pm

I think this should fall under here ..

Specifically, look at his comments that market is be efficient, orderly and rational !!!
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More from Cox, per the release, explaining his rationale for the disclosure proposal:

Millions of investors entrust their savings to our securities markets because they can be confident that our markets are orderly, liquid, efficient, and rational. The turmoil in today’s markets, particularly in the financial sector, is challenging that assumption for ordinary Americans. Markets are the best tool a free society has to price and allocate assets across a complex economy, but as is well known from experience, sometimes the wisdom of crowds is supplanted by crowd behavior. We need well-functioning markets to help us draw the line between reasonable miscalculation and error or something worse involving the failure of due diligence, self-dealing, and conflicts of interest. It is thus vitally important that the market mechanism continue to inspire investor confidence.



Are markets really efficient? And are investors really rational? If that is the case, we would all be buying things exactly the same, won't we?

And the next 'bold' statement, suggest that it is ok for companies to sell sub-standard products to retail investors and make money from it but when they fail..... let's call it 'reasonable miscalculation'.
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Postby winston » Fri Sep 19, 2008 10:38 pm

Breasts removed 'by mistake'

A 36-year-old woman with a benign breast tumor had her breasts removed by mistake at the North District Hospital, HK.

The patient was misdiagnosed by the public hospital on July 31 and underwent surgery on August 26.

A biopsy on the removed tissue found no cancer cells.

However, the hospital found another sample with cancer cells belonging to another patient whom the hospital is still tracing.

The hospital deputy chief executive Chung Chin-hung said a probe will be carried out by an expert panel to identify the flaws in the procedure and to determine whether it was a system or human error. The investigation will take six to eight weeks to complete.
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