Facebook– The Book With a Face

You are the book and your cover has a face– yes, you are on Facebook!
Indeed, this tool serves more than a social networking amenity. It’s a tool to put up an image online. You are your own public relations and marketing manager– to promote or sell yourself to your list of “friends” or contacts or [...]

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Trafficking of Women in Film

There hasn’t been a film that sent me to tears, I mean real tears than this– Lilya 4-Ever, a 2002 Russian film produced by Swedish Director Lukas Moodysson.
Russian girls have been stigmatised with the stereotype of prostitutes, but this film is an eye-opener. Loathing at Russian “whores” (a very denigrating label) comes from utter [...]

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A Commoditised Education

Last year, Professor Richard Larkins of Monash University admitted in his speech at the Melbourne Press Club that one of Australia’s major tourism products includes international education. Universities, not to mention English institutes, have been drawing a significant number of students mostly from Asian countries.
Today, news reports note that the international education industry contributes about [...]

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