I must respectfully disagree here. While j_lu86's post was universally offensive, at least he was forthright, raised several valid points and made no bones over the main reason for Aussie opposition- namely, that we were hanging one of theirs. and thusly the same laws did not apply for them.Originally posted by LazerLordz:A well-written piece from Down Under that does not degenerate into jingoism.Well, some of us can understand and see beyond the media spin, however, to the man in the street, be it Australian or Singaporean, they only see it as verbal fisticuffs and name-calling, which to them, is pretty insulting.
In fact, fewer drug abusers were arrested in a continuing downward trend which saw 2005 hit another record low.Hanging is not perfect.Is there any better options.
793 were nabbed, down by 17 percent.
The number of new drug abusers arrested was also lower, down by 25 percent to 453.
Like in 2003 and 2004, most of the arrests (79%) in 2005 involved synthetic drugs.
Originally posted by sgdiehard:What kind of trouble these Chinese Indonesian get into?
Among the friends and relatives, those who went down under to study are those who couldn't make it into the singapore higher institutes of learning, then there are those who have relatives already there (they will most likely migrate there after their studies), then come those who are good but cannot get to study the courses they want in singapore, too expensive to go to the states, too far to go to the UK.
Those who can study in local U will save their money and go down under for holidays.
[b]When you go to australia, or send your children there, you have to realise it is a diff society altogether. Singaporean generally do well but many Indonesian chinese ended up spending lots of money, got into trouble and went back indonesia with or w/o the papers, but they don't need that to run their parents business anyway.[/b]