Thursday, April 24, 2008

Widespread Baby-Selling In Vietnam?

True or an exaggeration?

According to the Associated Press, weaknesses in Vietnam's adoption system has allowed corruption, fraud and baby-selling to flourish.

AP, in a nine-page document describes brokers scouring villages for babies, hospitals selling infants whose mothers cannot pay their bills, and a grandmother giving away her grandchild — without telling the child's mother.

Read the full story here.

Sunday, April 6, 2008

Say What?

I thought I'd not be touching on post-elections chatter anymore.

But, the headlines today caught me.

Prime Minister Pak Lah is blaming Umno saboteurs for the Barisan Nasional's humiliating performance in the general election! ??

What's the matter with him? What an idiot! Did someone make him say that?

I must have been mistaken when I heard him say that he was listening to the voices of the people! That he'd try to right whatever that was wrong that caused the rakyat to despise the Barisan Nasional.

Have we all been had by this poor excuse of a leader?

Pathetic! He's going to go down so hard, he wouldn't know what hit him.

Oh...go to sleep, Pak Lah!