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I Get Around: Transportation from Manila’s Airport to the rest of the city
IF thousands of returning Filipinos can do it, so can you. Your fear of Manila’s notoriously opaque transportation system shouldn’t prevent you from discovering the very real charms of the Philippines’ capital city….
Cambodia and illegal drugs: Live and let live… until you die
OFFICIALLY, the Cambodian authorities are shocked, shocked that drug use is rampant among locals and tourists. Unofficially, it’s live and let live on the streets of Phnom Penh and Sihanoukville – you’re relatively…
Crazy pills and double crosses: Drug use among tourists in Thailand
SAY what you will about Thailand’s hellhole jails – they’ve inspired an entire bestselling genre of books, the drug trafficker prison memoir. Warren Fellows’ The Damage Done recounts the author’s years wasting away…
A diamond-hard Line: Singapore’s fight against illegal drugs
THE authorities in Singapore reserve the right to drug-test visitors upon arrival. Even a positive result – in the complete absence of any drugs on one’s person – can be grounds for arrest….
Kerobokan Prison Blues: Tourists and Indonesia’s harsh drug laws
IF the international war on drugs were to crumble under the weight of its own contradictions, as per Marx, the first cracks would probably appear in Indonesia, where draconian drug laws are making…
Trouble in paradise: Falling foul of Southeast Asia’s tough drug laws
TALK about your Bali vacation gone all to hell. Kerobokan Prison was likely the last thing on the anonymous Australian teenager’s mind when he paid a Kuta dealer about $25 for a baggie…
