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I could not resist mentioning this article. It is posted here exactly as I read it in the Bangkok Post. It is published on Yahoo as well.
SINGAPORE (AFP) - If there is a social problem in Singapore, expect the government to mount a campaign to fix it.

Education campaigns — anything from exhorting citizens to speak [...]

So, where have you been? Where are you going? Have you eaten yet?” These are the typical greetings you will encounter when you come to Thailand. We have had fun learning the appropriate responses: “Hello, I’m going home/shopping/around, I went to the beach, yes I have eaten or no, I haven’t eaten, what are you [...]

Three hours to the border and then about the same back. Our visa’s were up for renewal and the walk to the visa station in Cambodia proved fairly uneventful. There were children working the tourists for money, crippled and maimed people looking for a handout and several offering cigarrettes at 30 cents a box.
A number [...]