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Funny Aliens: Sex Determination punishable by law
Actually – todays picture isn’t so funny after all. It’s more a really sad story. In many poorer countries it is considered bad luck, if your child is a girl rather than a boy. The century-old...
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Cost of Living Chart – Phuket, Thailand (in Baht, Dollar and Euro)
Ahhh! Thailand, the famous Land of Smiles. A wet dream for many, yet a fulfillable one if you see the influx of Farangs, who find a place to live long-term in Thailand over the last couple of years....
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Indian Gazette Oddities – a tongue-in-cheek Overview
India has a wealth of daily newspapers, many of which are in English. I simply love sitting in a beach shack, a smooth sea breeze blowing, having my coffee shake and reading up what happened over the...
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Is this the next President of the Philippines?
With the current sitting-duck president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (GMA) trying to pull all strings to extend her 10 years in office by changing the constitution; a clear frontrunner emerges among the...
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Noynoy Aquino wins Philippine Presidency – by a Landslide
When I made my assumptions last October, that Benigno (Noynoy) Aquino III might be poised to become the 15th president of the Philippines, nobody expected that the results would come in so clearly and...
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Will Indonesia sell its women soon?
Currently in Indonesia a bill is mulled by local conservative politicians, that foreign men who want to marry an Indonesian woman would have to pay the equivalent of USD 55.000 to the government. Many...
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nomad4ever.com eradicates Hunger and World Poverty
Just a short note, that this website won an Award of Excellence by IGLU, one of the biggest travel companies in the UK with millions of people visiting their portal site every year. IGLU has won many...
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Nightlife in Bali – Selective Fun paired with Racism?
If you are a bit longer in Bali, you might notice that the whole tourism industry is based on double standards. Tourists pay more than local residents or Indonesians; as tourists seem to be loose with...
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Racial Profiling at Bali Airport – Necessity or Harassment?
In spite of the recent Immigration Experience at Denpasar Airport by 2 female travelers from the Philippines, I was wondering, what your opinion might be about Racial Profiling at airports. Currently...
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Club 66 (Doublesix) Bali goes out with a Bang – RIP!
24 years ago, when Kuta in Bali was a small fishing village with bamboo huts and mud tracks, only known to late Hippies and a handful of adventurous low budget tourists, something interesting happened....
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