“Every gap year student should have some skills training to help them travel in a more sensible and informed way. There are very few things in life that we expect to go off and do with no training, so why do we assume that travelling in the developing world can be achieved without preparation?”

Charlotte Hindle – author of Lonely Planet’s ‘Gap Year Guide’

Thursday, 6 April 2006

Kiss warning to Malaysia tourists


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Title – Kiss warning to Malaysia tourists
Source – www.bbc.co.uk
Date – 5th April 2006

Laws change and attitudes change with them, but it is not always the case, as it is mainly in the UK, that society becomes more liberal, here is an excellent example of how western attitudes are polarised from many other parts of the world. A country such a Malaysia is not considered to be extremist, yet to make kissing in public a criminal activity seems extreme to people living in the west.
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