That is true but that is not all of Asia but a small section. There are a large section of Asia (especially Aouth East Asia) that punishes offenders quite severely is reference to the crimes as you describe.
Certainly do and that is why I keep chewing gum (for take off and land) at the hotel as chewing gum is banned on the streets.
A customs officer in Changi search my hand cabin luggage and found gum. I quickly explained that it was for for plane trip and they allowed in the country and advised me to leave it there.
No laws in any part of the world is better. It is that they have different views and tollerences that agrees with their culture and local religion. That is something that the western world fails to grasp and keeps on wanting to push the envelope.
That is what I keep arguing about is that the western countries have no right to change laws of other countries as long as those laws will not interefere with their own country.
Yeah and that's another issue and some can explain that why keep liquidates persons et al. in prison when it is csting the tax payers quite a lot of money. Some can say that it is equivalent as putting them in a 5-star hotel would be more cost effective and rest to criminals for vicious acts are justifiable.
History is full of errors and many good people have died needlessly. The arguement is the point of keeping a vicious criminal alive or put to rest as a deterant.
I sometimes miss Singapore in a way that I could walk through a metro rail station and it is cleaned with polished granite floors and walls without a scrap of graffitti as compared to the famous Flinders Street Station that is crumbling with subways stained and marked with urine by some local gang and graffiti is so much around.
It is a place that I cannot feel proud of as compared to Singapore's Chinatown Station and many others.
Darwin's theory put into practise keeping away the dumb idiots.
