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ministries while the Ministry of Defence use 40 per cent (see CRPP, 2000). The money allocated to education is only 0.5 per cent of the Gross National Product compared to an average of 2.7 per cent in other Southeast Asian Countries (source: AFP Bangkok August 22,…

Imagine yourself in a dark alleyway, alone, cold, sick, and hungry. You have no money, no home, no food, and you have been in the same clothes for months. You are on the brink of death, however, a group of people see you and immediately take you to the hospital and then take you into a care center. What if these kind of people did not exist? Fortunately, though not many, they do which makes them an important group. The value of charity and community service groups is altruism because they save…

Pacific & Orient started as a private limited company establish in 1994. Pacific & Orient Insurance or known as P&O Insurance is the main subsidiaries of P&O Berhad. P&O Insurance is one of the largest Malaysian general insurers, and listed on the Main Board of the Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad in 1995. Since then, Pacific & Orient Berhad has diversified in business interests to include financial services and information technology services. These businesses have a common pool of human and…

of this generous act as well as the fact that the family had used up almost all of its money on the hospital bills. Esther knows she should feel grateful for this, but she knew "wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air" (Plath 185). No matter what happens in her life, Esther believes she will end up suffocating in her own mental bell jar. Not only is the bell jar the title of the…

Due to an extreme amount of unfortunate circumstances, The Vietnam War was deemed as the “unwinnable war”. Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam War stemmed in August 1962, in support of South Vietnam and putting an end to the spread of communism. This started due to the separation between the French Indo-china and the following requests of realignment between the countries, yet the Vietnamese weren’t interested in the realignment. Australia’s engagement in the war mainly consisted of Army…

2014) Even though she is still in her teenage years, Isabelle now engages in transnational activities (from below). For one thing, she always asks her mother to buy for her Philippine snack food and canned goods that are sold in Philippine stores in Bangkok or in groceries in the Philippines whenever her mother or father visits their passport country. She also said that she likes attending gatherings of Filipinos in Thailand like birthday parties or Christmas parties. At the same time, she…

In 1954 Cambodia sent two notes to the Government of Thailand to either withdraw troops or clear its claim over the area. The government of Thailand did not respond to them, subsequently in 1958, a conference was held at Bangkok between Thailand and Cambodia, however upon refusal of discussion on legal matters by Thai representatives, the negotiations broke…

Cultural Diffusion: the spreading out of culture, culture traits, or a cultural pattern from a central point. Demographics: the statistical data of a population, especially those showing average age, income, education, etc. Dictatorship: a country, government, or the form of government in which absolute power is exercised by a dictator. Human Development Index:is a statistical tool used to measure a country's overall achievement in its social and economic dimensions. Urbanization:is the…

Thailand can say that they used to use elephants to fight wars! Even though they’ve stopped doing that, elephants are still used in construction! You see, Thailand may be small, but it has culture, history, and weird facts just like any other country. Want to know more? มาค้นพบ ในประเทศไทย, or as they say in English, come discover Thailand! Thailand is in Southeast Asia and is shaped like an elephant's head and trunk. It is roughly 200,000 square miles, about 2 times as big as Wyoming. Thailand…

suddenly another one. The walls shake violently this time. A picture frame hits the ground. I wonder if these are just aftershocks. Have I slept through the worst of it? The news is on; earthquakes everywhere, Toronto, Los Angles, Paris, and Bangkok lay in ruins. I switch to another channel. Tokyo is gone, along with most other cities located on or near the world’s oceans, swept away by tsunamis. Another tremor hits this one more vicious than the last. Raucous outside my bedroom…