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Chinese etiquette comes up short
Life, Vanniya Sriangura, Published on 23/10/2014
» No matter how much travellers complain about the increase in numbers of Chinese tourists, who over recent years have flocked to popular holiday destinations across the globe, my vacation experience (OK, only a part of it) was actually enriched thanks to them.
Stop turning the extraordinary into the ordinary
Life, Vanniya Sriangura, Published on 15/08/2013
» A kindergarten student brutally tormented by a third-grader. Fathers raping daughters. Teenagers enjoying a drug party. Monks possessing supercars, riding private jets, having sexual intercourse and carrying firearms. That's not counting the non-stop lustful scandals in local showbiz and numerous corruption schemes by relentless politicians.
Mass shootings kill all of us
Life, Vanniya Sriangura, Published on 13/02/2013
» We were living only 60km away when the Columbine High School massacre took place in Colorado, USA, 14 years ago. It was one of the world's most shocking school shooting sprees. Since then, more than a dozen shooting massacres have horrified the world, including those at Virginia Tech in 2007, Northern Illinois University in 2008, Albertville Secondary School in Winnenden, Germany, in 2009 and Utoya Island youth camp in Buskerud, Norway, in 2011.