Stop child sex tourism: Canadian man admits to running a child sex ring

Posted Monday, January 31, 2011

A Canadian has been sentenced to 25 years (not enough in my opinion) for admitting to running a child sex ring.  Some of the children were as young as 4. To learn more about how you can help, please see my previous post on the subject here. Every day I ask God to take me [...]

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Air Asia flies to Seoul

Posted Thursday, August 5, 2010

On Monday, it was announced that Air Asia will now be servicing Kuala Lumpur-Seoul.   Since I am planning to spend many of my future vacations visiting family in South Korea, I was excited to learn this.   Seoul is severely under-serviced by low-cost carriers despite being a burgeoning tourist destination. Now a trip to [...]

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Stop child sex tourism!

Posted Thursday, July 1, 2010

I was absolutely disgusted to read about a 90-year old Australian man who has been accused of raping 4 young Thai girls near Chiang Mai.   Police found about 100 photographs of naked children in his home.  The man is, of course, innocent until proven guilty but there is no denying that child sex tourism [...]

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You know you are in Southeast Asia when…

Posted Friday, March 13, 2009

• you see a motorbike used as a minivan. • street food is better than restaurant food. • you can get a delicious meal for $1. • you see livestock transported on the back of a motorbike. • people try to sell you useless things and convince you that you need it. • you can [...]

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Transportation and conveyance in Southeast Asia

Posted Monday, March 9, 2009

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Vietnam, by far, had the funniest things being transported by motorbike or pedicab.

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